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Tim Milnes - Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 7:50am CEST

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This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of "indifferentism." Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know. The tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in wo...