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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hext, Kate
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2013.
سلاسل:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt5hh2p3
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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'