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Walter Pater : individualism and aesthetic philosophy / Kate Hext.
LIBRA PR5138.I5 H48 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hext, Kate.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pater, Walter, 1839-1894--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pater, Walter.
- Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.
- Individualism in literature.
- Literature--Aesthetics.
- Literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 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'
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748646258
- 0748646256
- OCLC:
- 825735202
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