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- ISBN-13
- 9780199212378
- Book Title
- Passion's Triumph over Reason
- ISBN
- 9780199212378
- Subject Area
- Self-Help, Psychology, Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Passion's Triumph over Reason : a History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Subject
- General, Emotions, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Self-Management / General
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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emPassion's Triumph over Reason/em presents a comprehensive survey of ideas of emotion, appetite, and self-control in English literature and moral thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In a narrative which draws on tragedy, epic poetry, and moral philosophy, Christopher Tilmouth explores how Renaissance writers transformed their understanding of the passions, re-evaluating emotion so as to make it an important constituent of ethical life rather than the enemy within which allegory had traditionally cast it as being. This interdisciplinary study departs from current emphases in intellectual history, arguing that literature should be explored alongside the moral rather than political thought of its time. The book also develops a new approach to understanding the relationship between literature and philosophy. Consciously or not, moral thinkers tend to ground their philosophising in certain images of human nature. Their work is premissed on imagined models of the mind and presumed estimates of man's moral potential. In other words, the thinking of philosophical authors (as much as that of literary ones) is shaped by the pre-rational assumptions of the 'moral imagination'. Because that is so, poets and dramatists in their turn, in speaking to this material, typically do more than just versify the abstract ideas of ethics. They reflect, directly and critically, upon those same core assumptions which are integral to the writings of their philosophical counterparts. Authors examined here include Aristotle, Augustine, Hobbes, and an array of lyric poets; but there are new readings, too, of emThe Faerie Queene/em and emParadise Lost, Hamlet and Julius Caesar/em, Dryden's 'Lucretius', and Etherege's emMan of Mode/em. Tilmouth's study concludes with a revisionist interpretation of the works of the Earl of Rochester, presenting this libertine poet as a challenging, intellectually serious figure. Written in a lucid, accessible style, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199212376
ISBN-13
9780199212378
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Publication Name
Passion's Triumph over Reason : a History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
General, Emotions, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Self-Management / General
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Self-Help, Psychology, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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2007-001257
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Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pr428.E56
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" Passion's Triumph over Reason is a first-rate achievement that repays close study. It is a fine book to think with (or against). Its broad vision can explain how libertinism emerged in the late seventeenth century, and it is a learned corrective to accounts that highlight only the rise of rationalism throughout the Enlightenment."--Tzachi Zamir, Renaissance Quarterly, ...Tilmouth's Passion's Triumph over Reason tells a more familiar story but in such comprehensive detail and with such a well-informed reading of a vast diversity of literary texts that it will prove useful to a wide array of scholars from beginning to advanced., "One of the more engaging early modern studies in recent memory...An impressive display of erudition combined with incisive and often savvy readings of a number of literary and philosophical texts." --Clio, Christopher Tilmouth has written one of the more engaging early modern studies in recent memory ... an impressive display of erudition combined with incisive and often savvy readings of a number of literary and philosophical texts, This is a splendid work of intellectual history; and Rochester, in particular, may have found his best critic, eloquently outlined... Tilmouth moves us into new and exciting territory ... in this excellent, groundbreaking study., ...a lucid, thorough account of changing attitudes toward the passions in England from the late sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries...Tilmouth's historical narrative is comprehensive, and he treats a usefully broad range of literary and moral psychological texts...Tilmouth's work will help bolster a line of scholarship that is truly interdisciplinary in its treatment of moral philosophy and (what we now call) literature., a learned and cohesive exploration of major cultural interpretations of passion and reason...Erudite and thought-provoking., As individual expository inquiries into the reason-passion relations, Tilmouth's chapters are brilliant pieces of scholarship: meticulous, detailed, knowledgeable, patient, and philosophically penetrating. ... Passion's Triumph over Reason is a first-rate achievement that repays close study. It is a fine book to think with (or against). Its broad vision can explain how libertinism emerged in the late seventeenth century, and it is a learned corrective to accounts thathighlight only the rise of rationalism throughout the Enlightenment.
Table of Content
IntroductionPart One1. Positions in early modern moral thought2. Spenser, psychomachia, and the limits of governance3. Hamlet "lapsed in passion"4. Renaissance tragedy and the fracturing of familiar terms5. Augustinian and Aristotelian influences from Herbert to MiltonPart Two6. Hobbes: fear, power, and the passions7. The Restoration ethos of libertinism8. Rochester: the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinismCodaBibliography of works cited, IntroductionPart One: Governance and the Passions1: Positions in early modern moral thought2: Spenser, psychomachia, and the limits of governance3: Hamlet 'lapsed in passion'4: Renaissance tragedy and the fracturing of familiar terms5: Augustinian and Aristotelian influences from Herbert to MiltonPart Two: The Rise and Fall of Libertinism6: Hobbes: fear, power, and the passions7: The Restoration ethos of libertinism8: Rochester: the disappointments of Hobbism and libertinismCodaBibliography of references
Copyright Date
2007
Dewey Decimal
128/.3
Dewey Edition
22
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