1st Edition
Shelley's Intellectual System and its Epicurean Background
By Michael Vicario
Copyright 2007
314 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelley’s philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or a skeptical and subjective idealist. The study presents a new interpretation of Shelley’s thinking – an interpretation that places ‘intellectual system’ squarely within the Epicurean tradition of Lucretius, casting both poets as theistic empiricists.... Read more
Introduction. 1. Shelley and the Limits of Skepticism 2. The Atomic Basis of Shelley’s Intellectual System 3. Shelley’s Lucretius: The Edition of Gilbert Wakefield 4. Shelley’s Lucretius: The Translation of John Mason Good 5. 'Splendid Blasphemies': Drummond the Epicurean Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Michael Vicario
