1st Edition

Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century Writing Between Philosophy and Literature

Edited By Alexander Dick, Christina Lupton Copyright 2008
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.

    Introduction, Christina Lupton, Alexander Dick; Chapter 1 Philosophy/Non-Philosophy and Derrida's (Non) Relations with Eighteenth-Century Empiricism, Nicholas Hudson; Chapter 2 Locke's Desire, Jonathan Brody Kramnick; Chapter 3 Philosophy and Politeness, Moral Autonomy and Malleability in Shaftesbury's Characteristics, Joseph Chaves; Chapter 4 Reid, Writing and the Mechanics of Common Sense, Alexander Dick; Chapter 5 Preposterous Hume, Mark Blackwell; Chapter 6 Aesthetic Sensibility and the Contours of Sympathy Through Hume's Insertions to the Treatise, Adam Budd; Chapter 7 David Hume and Jane Austen on Pride: Ethics in the Enlightenment, Eva M. Dadlez; Chapter 8 Hume, Religion, Literary Form: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, John Richetti; Chapter 9 The Epistemology of Genre, Jonathan Sadow; Chapter 10 The Primitive in Adam Smith's History, Maureen Harkin; Chapter 11 Can Julie Be Trusted? Rousseau and the Crisis of Constancy in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Nancy Yousef; Chapter 12 After the Summum Bonum: Novels, Treatises and the Enquiry After Happiness, Brian Michael Norton; Chapter 13 Music vs Conscience in Wordsworth's Poetry, Adam Potkay;

    Biography

    Alexander Dick, Christina Lupton