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Author Hoagwood, Terence Allan, 1952-

Title Skepticism & ideology : Shelley's political prose and its philosophical context from Bacon to Marx / Terence Allan Hoagwood
Edition 1st ed
Published Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 237 pages)
Contents Part 1: Shelley and philosophical skepticism -- Skeptical methodology -- The concept of probability -- The problem of external objects and the concept of cause -- The epistemological circle and the criterion of truth -- Descartes and the criterion of truth -- Drummond's critique of Descartes: the argument of relativity and the criterion of truth -- Universal consent, facticity, and nominalization -- Shelley, Drummond, and the concept of power -- Sign theory: Berkeley, Drummond, Shelley, and skeptical tradition -- Thomas Reid: common sense, conventional assent, and political power -- Part 2: Shelley and historical dialectic -- Shelley, Marx, and cultural context -- The dialectics of skepticism and Marxism -- Marx, Engels, Hegel, and the absolute idea -- Dialectic and negative dogma -- X is Y, unless it is not -- Ideology, superstructure, and determinism -- Part 3: Shelley's philosophical prose -- Politics and Shelley's philosophical project -- Imagination and morals -- Shelley and reform -- Shelley and the Examiner -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter I -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter II -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter III
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index
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Subject Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Political and social views
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Prose
SUBJECT Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 fast
Subject Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Political science -- Philosophy.
Skepticism.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism and interpretation
Political and social views
Political science -- Philosophy
Politics and literature
Skepticism
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1587291118
9781587291111
Other Titles Skepticism and ideology