Poetry against torture : criticism, history, and the human /
Bové, Paul A.,1949-
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-145) and index.
Vico and philological criticism -- Philology and poetry, the case against Descartes -- Erich Auerbach and invention of man -- John Stuart Mill, On liberty and criticism -- John Stuart Mill and the limits of self-making -- Michel Foucault and the critical care of the self -- William Empson and the mind: poetry, torture, and civilization.
Poetry
Poetry.
Torture
Social control.
Social evolution.
Humanism.
Liberalism.