... is, from the Shelleyan perspective, a matter of our false cultural conditioning masquerading as a reality principle. His poetry and prose together mount an intense critique of postmodernism even as they pave the way for its artistic techniques and philosophical preoccupations. This may seem...

.... WILLIAMF. ROERTCEN Uttivcrsity of Illinois Ricarda Huch’s “U~eltanschauiing”as Expressed irt Her Philosophical Works artd in Her Nozds. By AUDREYFLANDREAU. A dissertation. Chicago : University of Chicago, 1948. Pp. 212. The author seeks “to prove the close inner relation” which...

...Alfred Owen Aldridge Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY By ALFREDOWEN ALDRIDGE Captain Booth, the well-meaning hero of Fielding’s Amelia, begins his cycle of misfortune...

...Manuel Olguín Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 VALERA’S PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST NATURALISM By MANUELOLGUfN Although several excellent studies have been devoted to Valera’s criticism in this country and abroad,l...

... poetry, Hegel, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Freud. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between , coedited with Wolfgang Iser, appeared in 1996. Descartes’s Cogito, Kant’s Sublime, and Rembrandt’s Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom Sanford Budick...

... or social subsoil of his time.” In such evidences of saneness this valuable critical essay abounds. H. G. MERRIAM Montanu State University Un Voyageur-Philosophe au X VIII“ Sikcle, PAbbk Jean-Bernard Le Blanc. By HELENEMONOD-CASSIDY. Harvard...

... AS PHILOSOPHIC POET' By F. J. LEVY A little more than a century ago, the Reverend A. 1). Grosart included Fulke Greville in one of his innumerable and invaluable series of for- gotten poets. The opportunity to revaluate the poet was not immedi- ately taken up...

... Reviews Denis Diderot. L’Howime. Ses idkes philosophiques, esthktiques et littkraires. By H. GILLOT. Avec une Lettre-Preface de M. ERNESTSEILLIERE, Paris : Librairie Georges Courville, 1937. Pp. 336. Diderot. L’Artiste et le philosophe. By JEAN Luc. Paris : Editions...

...George Huppert Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 PETER RAMUS THE HUMANIST AS PHILOSOPHE BJ GEORGEHUPPERT In Paris, yesterday, I was standing at the top of the steep hill known as the mountain...

... of Ronsard po2te de l’amour. SAMUELF. WILL Indiana University nte Embattled Philosopher: A Biography of Denis Diderot. By LESTERG. CRDCKER.East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1954. Pp. 442. $6.50. Two Diderot Studies...

... of eighth), Bassermann’s book on the late Rilke is a very important contribution which no serious student of Rilke can overlook. H. F. PETERS Reed College Vauvenargues, Philosophe de la gloire. Par PAULSOUCHON. Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier...

... within their province, and so it is to them primarily that he addresses this book with the hope of arousing in them an awareness of the problem’s significance. CLOTILDEWILSON University of Washington Le Philosophe : Tents...

... it an impressive memorial; its limita- tions suggest that the Folger might now begin to sponsor critical and scholarly projects of wider range and more central importance. LEONARDF. DEAN University of Connecticut Philosophic Words: A Study...

... of “philosophical poetry” was thought dangerously radical not solely because of its content but because of the compound logic of its form. Effecting a more perfect union of scientific reason and the poetic imagination, Darwin's philosophical poetry conjoins as poetry the aesthetic and political aims of his work...

...Gerard Passannante Abstract Looking at a variety of cases from the early modern period—from debates around astrology to the essays of Michel de Montaigne to the poetry and prose of John Donne and the philosophical fictions of Margaret Cavendish—this essay explores the encounter with materialist...

... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...

...Anthony Kubiak The recent past has seen a shift away from more philosophically complex, theoretically dense approaches to literary criticism (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, phenomenology) in favor of more material or “empirical” (historiographical, historical materialist) approaches...

...Thomas DiPiero Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, thinkers in various disciplines evoked birds and other animals that appeared able to talk to make points about language use and human reason and identity. Talking birds initially allowed philosophers to draw parallels between language...

...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...