Uneasy Relations
Subtitle: Reason in Literature & Science from Aristotle to Darwin & Blake
Publisher: Marquette Univ Press
Published: 15 Mar 2010
Place of publication: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
Description: An independent scholar of English literature living in Ontario, Rupert sets out to validate the mode of reasoning in literature, which is challenged by contemporary assumptions regarding the nature of mind, particularly in the field of education. The domination of universities by the sciences has marginalized the humanities, she says, and the philosophy of education that rules elementary and secondary schools proclaim that people know only through sense observation and personal experience. She cites the opinions of some of the most respected thinkers of Western civilization, among them Aristotle, John Henry Newman, Thomas Hobbes, the Greek Church fathers, Erasmus and Charles Darwin, and William Blake. 

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