Robert Colls
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199245192
- eISBN:
- 9780191697432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245192.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines what happened to the more inclusive awareness of England during the 1930s depression. After the war, regionalism emerged as part of the national economic plan and as a key part ...
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This chapter examines what happened to the more inclusive awareness of England during the 1930s depression. After the war, regionalism emerged as part of the national economic plan and as a key part of the welfare state. The chapter discusses the catastrophic loss of confidence in a homeland that once had a certain center which was London, a definite age, and a not entirely disrespectful relationship between them.Less
This chapter examines what happened to the more inclusive awareness of England during the 1930s depression. After the war, regionalism emerged as part of the national economic plan and as a key part of the welfare state. The chapter discusses the catastrophic loss of confidence in a homeland that once had a certain center which was London, a definite age, and a not entirely disrespectful relationship between them.
James Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755870
- eISBN:
- 9780804768269
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755870.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
This book asks how the literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In 1801, the 23-year-old Kleist, attributing his ...
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This book asks how the literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In 1801, the 23-year-old Kleist, attributing his loss of confidence in our knowledge of the world to his reading of Kant, turned from science to literature. He ignored Kant's apology of the sciences to focus on the philosopher's doctrine of the unknowability of things in themselves. From that point on, Kleist's writings relate confrontations with points of hermeneutic resistance. Truth is no longer that which the sciences establish; only the disappointment of every interpretation attests to the continued sway of truth. Though he adheres to Kant's definition of Reason as the faculty that addresses things in themselves, Kleist sees no need for its critique and discipline in the name of the reasonableness (prudence and common sense) of the experience of the natural sciences. Setting transcendental Reason at odds with empirical reasonableness, he releases Kant's ethics and doctrine of the sublime from the moderating pull of their examples.Less
This book asks how the literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In 1801, the 23-year-old Kleist, attributing his loss of confidence in our knowledge of the world to his reading of Kant, turned from science to literature. He ignored Kant's apology of the sciences to focus on the philosopher's doctrine of the unknowability of things in themselves. From that point on, Kleist's writings relate confrontations with points of hermeneutic resistance. Truth is no longer that which the sciences establish; only the disappointment of every interpretation attests to the continued sway of truth. Though he adheres to Kant's definition of Reason as the faculty that addresses things in themselves, Kleist sees no need for its critique and discipline in the name of the reasonableness (prudence and common sense) of the experience of the natural sciences. Setting transcendental Reason at odds with empirical reasonableness, he releases Kant's ethics and doctrine of the sublime from the moderating pull of their examples.