Walter Pater : individualism and aesthetic philosophy /
Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosoph...
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| বিন্যাস: | Licensed eBooks |
| ভাষা: | ইংরেজি |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2013.
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| মালা: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt5hh2p3 |
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- 1. Introduction: individualism and the 'aesthetic philosopher'
- 2. Empiricism and imperilled self
- 3. Subjectivity and imagination: from Hume to Kant via Berkeley
- 4. Metaphysics: Pater's failed attempt at atheism
- 5. Sense and sensuality: caught between Venus and Dionysus
- 6. Pater's Copernican revolution: the desiring, dying body
- 7. Evolution and the 'species': the individual in deep time
- 8. The moment and the aesthetic imagination
- 9. Ethics, society and the aesthetic individual
- 10. Conclusion: 'the elusive inscrutable mistakable self'