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13 - Reloading the British Romantic Canon: The Historical Editing of Literary Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

By
Pamela Clemit
Edited by
Richard Bourke  and
Quentin Skinner
Richard Bourke
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Quentin Skinner
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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This view of the relationship between philosophy and history has been remarkably enduring. It flourished in the early-modern period, as I show in the case of Spinoza; but it also retained an influence within analytical philosophy, as some of Russell’s early work illustrates. I propose that contemporary advocates of the Separation Thesis remain motivated by the exclusive image of philosophy embodied in the Classical Conception, and the concomitant desire for a transcendent form of knowledge. As long as this is so, the relationship between history and philosophy will remain uneasy.

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HistoricismromanticismliteratureMarilyn Butler
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History in the Humanities and Social Sciences , pp. 306 - 328
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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