Leavis and Lonergan : Literary Criticism and Philosophy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0761871373
ISBN-13
9780761871378
Publisher
University Press of America
Imprint
Hamilton Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 11th, 2021
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledgeHistory of ideas
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This book explores the ways in which Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy provides exactly the kind of support F.R. Leavis was hoping to find when looking for support for his critical approach to literature after failing to find the support he sought for his argument in the dominance of logical positivism at that time.
This book illustrates the value of the cross-fertilisation of literary criticism with philosophy, something Leavis advocated in his later writings. Lonergan’s epistemology of Critical Realism supports Leavis’s account of how we reach a valid judgment concerning the worth of a poem or literary text and his exploration of the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity illustrates how close engagement with serious literature can be considered morally beneficial, something Leavis passionately believed in. Leavis and Lonergan are at one in providing convincing arguments against Cartesian dualism and the dominant positivist philosophies of their times. And Leavis’s method and practice as a literary critic, which he developed independently of Lonergan, exemplify Lonergan’s epistemology as applied to literature and, in this way, illustrate its versatility and fruitfulness.
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