British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
Timothy Michael
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Description for British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
Hardback. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution. Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge ... Read more
What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution. Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418032
SKU
V9781421418032
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About Timothy Michael
Timothy Michael is a Fellow of Lincoln College and an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
Michael offers extraordinary insights into many other matters, including the philosophy of Shelley, Coleridge and Kant... Deserve[s] a place on the bookshelf on anyone interested in British politics, American history, the history of India, philosophy (both ancient and 18th/19th century), poetry, the development of ideas and much else.
Sun News Miami
This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written ... Read more
Sun News Miami
This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written ... Read more