Essays on literature and philosophy
By: by Edward Caird, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow, late fellow and tutor of Merton College, Oxford, author of "The critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant"
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society
Publisher: James Maclehose and Sons
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
Subjects: Philosophy; Literature; History and criticism
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Essays on Dante, Goethe and Rousseau previously appeared in Contemporary review, essay on Wordsworth in Fraser's magazine, and articles on Cartesianism and metaphysic in Encyclopedia Britannica. Lecture on Carlyle previously unpublished. cf. Prefatory note.

Includes index.

Paged continuously.

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: vol. I. Dante in his relation to the theology and ethics of the middle ages. Goethe and philosophy. Rousseau. Wordsworth. The problem of philosophy at the present time. The genius of Carlyle; title: vol. II. Cartesianism. Metaphysic.