FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2004752145> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2004752145 endingPage "381" @default.
• W2004752145 startingPage "379" @default.
• W2004752145 abstract "Reviews379 balance between rational demonstration and persuasiveness. Hume, that selfavowed man of letters, is an obvious case in point and two interesting essays are devoted to texts by him. Donald T. Siebert's is on the manner of the Treatise and argues that style and meaning are not neady separable in that work, for there we see Hume in theprocessofdiscoveringhis philosophy. RobertGinsberg's detailed analysis of the essay Of the Standard of Taste shows how Hume's literary strategy there is to cause the reader to experience what the author is talking about. Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetorical situation was, according to Laurie A. Finke's interpretation, even more intricate. For she was forced to address men on die issue of women's liberation in a language created by men for the oppression of women. On this reading some of her apparent infelicities of style can be explained as part of her challenge to the patriarchal rhetoric of her time. The picture Finke presents of eighteenth-century male philosophers as uniformly elevating reason (masculine) over the passions (feminine) is historically oversimplified ; consider Hume's position, for instance. But the general argument is stimulating and helps us better understand Wollstonecraft's achievement. Kant is not an obvious candidate for literary analysis (though John A. McCarthy's essay cites him as seminal for the development of the philosophical essay as a German genre). However, a fine piece by Stephen F. Barker provides a succinct account of Kant's philosophical project in the first Critique and its connection with several aspects of his expository style, including an amusing and illuminating representation of the faculties of the mind as protagonists in a soap opera. The remaining essays are perhaps not quite so direcdy connected with the philosophical rhetoric theme, though they too are concerned with philosophical writingas writing. WulfKoepke offers an overview ofHerder's career as a search for a language fit for enlightenment; Harry M. Solomon discusses metaphor in Pope'sEssayonMan, proposingaconceptofregulative metaphor (analogous to Kant's regulative idea); and Robert Markley locates Shaftesbury's Characteristicks in its historical stylistic context. Overall this is an interesting collection which includes several particularly good essays. It should be of relevance not only to those in eighteenth-century studies, but also to anyone concerned with the literary dimension of philosophical writing. Massey University, New ZealandRoy W. Perrett Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher ofthe World, by John Michael; xvii & 186 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, $22.95. In Emerson and Skepticism John Michael argues that even in Emerson's early works his famous self-reliance was more a dream than an achievement. For Michael this dream dates from Emerson's initial quarrel with Unitarianism. In 380Philosophy and Literature Emerson's The Lord's Supper, the skeptical arguments that Unitarians had turned against orthodox Christianity come back to haunt Unitarianism itself. We are presumably left with the autonomous individual, the Emerson who can confidendy say to his Unitarian teachers, This mode ofcommemorating Christ is not suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it (p. 17). But, as Michael points out, this supposedly self-justified individual still seeks approbation from others. Although freed from the doctrinal constraints that bind a preacher, Emerson as a writer needed an audience. Even as Emerson thus longed for approval, he distrusted the negative reaction he got. But he also worried about his right to censure his critics. In short, Emerson could neither dispense with an audience (and still count himself a writer) nor could he trust his reviewers, whether friends or foes. Michael shows how this dilemma not only informs Emerson's other early writings, but also accounts for his ambivalence toward Hume, Wordsworth, and Montaigne. No book does a betterjob of demonstrating how deeply Emerson's imagination was engaged with what was said about him. Michael does get repetitive, perhaps because he wants to show that Emerson's difficulties with his readers were a constant in his work, not the by-product of any late loss of faith. And Michael can overstate his otherwise carefully presented case, as when he describes Emerson's reluctant discovery that he must remain at the mercy of the use his readers..." @default.
• W2004752145 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2004752145 creator A5045018128 @default.
• W2004752145 date "1989-01-01" @default.
• W2004752145 modified "2023-09-25" @default.
• W2004752145 title "<i>Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World</i> (review)" @default.
• W2004752145 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1989.0040" @default.
• W2004752145 hasPublicationYear "1989" @default.
• W2004752145 type Work @default.
• W2004752145 sameAs 2004752145 @default.
• W2004752145 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2004752145 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2004752145 hasAuthorship W2004752145A5045018128 @default.
• W2004752145 hasBestOaLocation W20047521452 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C1370556 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C18296254 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C192562157 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C2776445246 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C2780876879 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConcept C527412718 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C111472728 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C124952713 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C1370556 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C138885662 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C142362112 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C18296254 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C192562157 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C27206212 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C2776445246 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C2780876879 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C41895202 @default.
• W2004752145 hasConceptScore W2004752145C527412718 @default.
• W2004752145 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W2004752145 hasLocation W20047521451 @default.
• W2004752145 hasLocation W20047521452 @default.
• W2004752145 hasOpenAccess W2004752145 @default.
• W2004752145 hasPrimaryLocation W20047521451 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2034413345 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2059453367 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2069109350 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2367346186 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2586834857 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W2940492862 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W4285190608 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W4376104480 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W630067794 @default.
• W2004752145 hasRelatedWork W85885395 @default.
• W2004752145 hasVolume "13" @default.
• W2004752145 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2004752145 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2004752145 magId "2004752145" @default.
• W2004752145 workType "article" @default.