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Skepticism & ideology : Shelley's political prose and its philosophical context from Bacon to Marx / Terence Allan Hoagwood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1988.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xxxi, 237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587291118
  • 9781587291111
Other title:
  • Skepticism and ideology
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Skepticism & ideology.DDC classification:
  • 821/.7 19
LOC classification:
  • PR5442.P64 H63 1988eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.

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.

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