The Romantic Syndrome [electronic resource] : Toward a New Method in Cultural Anthropology and History of Ideas / by W.T. Jones.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789401510295
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/12156
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1961.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1961.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 255 p. 21 illus. online resource.
Dizi
International Scholars Forum ; 14
İçindekiler Notu
I. Introduction -- II. Seven Axes of Bias -- III. Bias in the Arts and the Sciences -- IV. Four Typical Syndromes -- V. The Romantic Syndrome: Poetry -- VI. Contrasts Between the Romantic Syndrome and the Enlightenment Syndrome: Metaphysics -- VII. Contrasts Between the Romantic Syndrome and the Enlightenment Syndrome: Political Theory -- VIII. Some Applications and Some Limitations.
Özet, vb.
In this age of specialism philosophers, like other specialists, tend to take in each other's washing. Here, perhaps imprudently, I attempt to break out of this pattern. Though I am by profes­ sion a philosopher, I am addressing primarily, not other philo­ sophers, but cultural anthropologists, sociologists, historians of ideas, and literary and art critics. Thus, while there are chapters in this book on metaphysics and political theory, I do not ask, "Is the doctrine in question true?" - which is the kind of ques­ tion a philosopher might be expected to raise. Instead I ask, "What can we learn from this doctrine about the personality structure of the individual who framed it and about the charac­ teristic drives of the society in which he lived?" My reasons for asking and for trying to answer this kind of question, instead of the usual philosophical question, are as follows: Though the material products of culture and the overt behavior patterns of societies have long been objects of scientific study, the most characteristic products of high cultures - artistic productions like poems and paintings and theoretical structures like metaphysical and scientific theory - have not as readily yielded to exact description and analysis. Not, of course, that there is not a very extensive discussion of these matters. But most of it is carried on in terms that are regrettably vague.
Konu
Anthropology.
Science __ Philosophy.
Anthropology.
Philosophy of Science.