Romantic Realities
Subtitle: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780748691401
Subjects: Romanticism, great britain
Description: Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era. Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism.