num_pages: 292
description: This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of "indifferentism." Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know. The tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such as Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
language: English
title: Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose
titlecomplete: Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 55)
genres: Philosophy
series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
publisher: Cambridge University Press