Theory and practice in the eighteenth century
Subtitle: writing between philosophy and literature
By: edited by Alexander Dick and Christina Lupton
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781851969388
Subjects: British Philosophy; Philosophie
Description: "This collection of essays by leading eighteenth-century specialists considers the Enlightenment in its historical and rhetorical contexts. The collection presents eighteenth-century philosophy as a material practice of writing, publication, conversation and dissemination." "The essays analyse how Enlightenment philosophers viewed their own writing; how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness; and how their insights into the nature of philosophical writing constitute our own academic legacy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy/non-philosophy and Derrida's (non) relations with eighteenth-century empiricism / Nicholas Hudson; title: Locke's desire / Jonathan Brody Kramnick; title: Philosophy and politeness, moral autonomy and malleability in Shaftesbury's Characteristics / Joseph Chaves; title: Reid, writing and the mechanics of common sense / Alexander Dick; title: Preposterous Hume / Mark Blackwell; title: Aesthetic sensibility and the contours of sympathy through Hume's insertions to the Treatise / Adam Budd; title: David Hume and Jane Austen on pride : ethics in the enlightenment / Eva M. Dadlez; title: Hume, religion, literary form : Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / John Richetti; title: The epistemology of genre / Jonathan Sadow; title: The primitive in Adam Smith's history / Maureen Harkin; title: Can Julie be trusted? Rousseau and the crisis of constancy in eighteenth-century philosophy / Nancy Yousef; title: After the summum bonum : novels, treatises and the enquiry after happiness / Brian Michael Norton; title: Music vs conscience in Wordsworth's poetry / Adam Potkay.