Kant and Milton

Kant and Milton
Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 356
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0674050053
ISBN-13 : 9780674050051
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kant and Milton by : Sanford Budick

Download or read book Kant and Milton written by Sanford Budick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant’s encounter with Milton’s poetry to the formation of Kant’s moral and aesthetic thought. Sanford Budick reveals the relation between a poetic vision and a philosophy that theorized what that poetry was doing. As Plato and Aristotle contemplate Homer, so Kant contemplates Milton. In all these cases philosophy and poetry allow us to better understand each other. Milton gave voice to the transformation of human understanding effected by the Protestant Revolt, making poetry of the idea that human reason is created self-sufficient. Kant turned that religiously inflected poetry into the richest modern philosophy. Milton’s bold self-reliance is Kant’s as well.Using lectures of Kant that have been published only in the past decade, Budick develops an account of Kant based on his lifelong absorption in the poetry of Milton, especially Paradise Lost. By bringing to bear the immense power of his reflections on aesthetic and moral form, Kant produced one of the most penetrating interpretations of Milton’s achievement that has ever been offered and, at the same time, reached new peaks in the development of aesthetics and moral reason.


Kant and Milton Related Books

Kant and Milton
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Sanford Budick
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant’s encounter with Milton’s poetry to the formation of
Kant & Phenomenology
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Tom Rockmore
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century—and Edmund Husserl is usually thought
Milton's Modernities
Language: en
Pages: 521
Authors: Feisal G. Mohamed
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. The ori
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Robert Doran
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.
Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Gordon Michalson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touches on the issu