Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose

by Tim Milnes

Book Overview

This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of indifferentism. Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know. The tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035953
• ISBN13: 9780521035958
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"