S. Haines

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Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau (eBook, PDF)

Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

Beschreibung

This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

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• Text-to-Speech

Autor

SIMON HAINES is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230502772
• Artikelnr.: 38176150

Rezensionen

'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University