Skepticism & ideology : Shelley's political prose and its philosophical context from Bacon to Marx / Terence Allan Hoagwood
1988, First Edition. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #390621
ISBN: 0877452180
Physical description: 237 pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index. Contents: Part 1: Shelley and philosophical skepticism -- Skeptical methodology -- The concept of probability -- The problem of external objects and the concept of cause -- The epistemological circle and the criterion of truth -- Descartes and the criterion of truth -- Drummond's critique of Descartes: the argument of relativity and the criterion of truth -- Universal consent, facticity, and nominalization -- Shelley, Drummond, and the concept of power -- Sign theory: Berkeley, Drummond, Shelley, and skeptical tradition -- Thomas Reid: common sense, conventional assent, and political power -- Part 2: Shelley and historical dialectic -- Shelley, Marx, and cultural context -- The dialectics of skepticism and Marxism -- Marx, Engels, Hegel, and the absolute idea -- Dialectic and negative dogma -- X is Y, unless it is not -- Ideology, superstructure, and determinism -- Part 3: Shelley's philosophical prose -- Politics and Shelley's philosophical project -- Imagination and morals -- Shelley and reform -- Shelley and the Examiner -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter I -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter II -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter III.
Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Political and social views. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Prose. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Political and social views. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 Prose. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Pensée politique et sociale. Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
1800-1899. Politics and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Political science Philosophy. Criticism and interpretation. Political and social views. Political science Philosophy.
Politics and literature.
Skepticism. Politics and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Political science Philosophy. Skepticism.
Great Britain.
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