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This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').
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'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University
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SIMON HAINES is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau
Book Subtitle: Romantic Souls, Realist Lives
Authors: Simon Haines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502772
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4418-4Published: 23 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52241-5Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50277-2Published: 23 November 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 214
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Classical and Antique Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Philosophy