Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:20th Oct '05
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This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment.
This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
"[A] rich study." International Journal of the Classical Tradition
ISBN: 9780521021432
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
Weight: 451g
300 pages