Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367870768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str.

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli; Thomas Constantinesco

Opis

This volume offers new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. Essays visit literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating how Romantic literature engages with European thought, from 18^th- and 19^th-C philosophy to contemporary theory. Chapters read Romantic texts both as critical response

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking with Literature  Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Thomas Constantinesco  Part I: Romantic Confrontations  1. Absolut Jena: A Second Look at Lacoue-Labarthe’s and Nancy’s Representation of the Literary Theory of Frühromantik  Christoph Bode  2. History and Poetry: Fundamental Aspects and Affects of the Relations between Literature and Philosophy in English Romanticism  Eric Dayre  3. "Ghostly Language": Spectral Presences and Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Salisbury Plain Poems  Mark Sandy  4. Thinking without Being and Acts of Poetry in Shelley  Arkady Plotnitsky  Part II: The Poetics of Thought  5. Prolegomenon to the Remnants: Shelley’s "Triumph of Life"  Simon Jarvis  6. Wordsworth’s Thinking Places  Pascale Guibert  7. Philosophy, Politics, Sensation: The Case of John Clare  Yves Abrioux  Part III: Romantic Selves  8. Philosophies of Identity and Impersonation from Locke to Charles Mathews  Angela Esterhammer  9. The Happiness of Romantic Philosophy  Joel Faflak  10. Subjectivity and Despair in Blake and Kierkegaard  Laura Quinney  11. Thomas De Quincey and Søren Kierkegaard: The Elective Affinities between Romantic Philosophical Autobiography and Autobiographical Philosophy  Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay  Part IV: Transatlantic Romanticism  12. The Tension between Immanence and Dualism in Coleridge and Emerson  Danielle Follett  13. Emerson’s Philosophy of Creativity  Susan L. Dunston  14. The Perversity of Skepticism: Qualia and Criteria in Emerson and Poe  Paul Grimstad  Coda: Cavell and Wordsworth: Illuminating Romanticism  Edward T. Duffy

O autorze

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli is Associate Professor at the Université de Lille, France.

Thomas Constantinesco is Associate Professor at the Université Paris Diderot, France and a Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).