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Poetry against torture : criticism, history, and the human / Paul A. Bove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bové, Paul A., 1949-
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Social aspects.
- Poetry.
- Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Torture.
- Social evolution.
- Social control.
- Humanism.
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 159 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book shows that poetry, historicism, and humanism together make possible civilizations that afford the best chance for the human species to develop, for individuals to perfect themselves, and for the hard earned achievement of making the human historical to persist.
- Contents:
- Vico and philological criticism
- Philology and poetry, the case against Descartes
- Erich Auerbach and invention of man
- John Stuart Mill, On liberty and criticism
- John Stuart Mill and the limits of self-making
- Michel Foucault and the critical care of the self
- William Empson and the mind: poetry, torture, and civilization.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-145) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612709258
- 9781282709256
- 1282709259
- 9789888052653
- 9888052659
- OCLC:
- 650528241
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