Poetry and Philosophy From Homer to Rousseau - Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

Zusatztext '...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 Informationen zum 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). Klappentext 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'). Zusammenfassung 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'). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Homer: Passion in the Iliad Sophocles' Antigone and Thucydides' Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions Aquinas and the Realist Revival Dante and Medieval Romanticism Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare's Realism Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau Notes Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: S Haines, S. Haines
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349522415
• ISBN: 978-1-349-52241-5
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Poetry, History of Philosophy, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literature, Ancient, European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600, Philosophy—History