Michael Prince

Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment

Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521021432
• ISBN-10: 052102143X
• Artikelnr.: 21953214

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: dialogue and Enlightenment; Part I. Strains of Enlightenment:
1. Shaftesbury's characteristic genres: concepts of criticism in the early
eighteenth century; 2. Shaftesbury's The Moralists: a dialogue upon
dialogue; 3. Berkeley and the paradoxes of empiricism: A Treatise
Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between
Hylas and Philonous; 4. Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Christian Cicero; 5.
Hume and the end of religious dialogue: Dialogues concerning Natural
Religion; Part II. Dialogue, Aesthetics and the Novel: 6. The Platonic
revival: 1740-70; 7. Anti-Platonism and the novelistic character; 8. Dead
conversations: Richard Hurd's late poetics of dialogue; 9. Utopia or
conversation: transforming dialogue in Johnson and Austen; Epilogue: some
dialectics of Enlightenment.