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Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

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  • © 2005

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  1. Simon Haines

    1. Australian National University, Australia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Homer: Passion in the Iliad

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 1-16

  3. Sophocles’ Antigone and Thucydides’ Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 17-32

  4. Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 33-52

  5. The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 53-70

  6. Aquinas and the Realist Revival

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 71-89

  7. Dante and Medieval Romanticism

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 90-108

  8. Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare’s Realism

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 109-130

  9. Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau

    • Simon Haines
    Pages 131-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-214
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About this book

This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

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'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University

Authors and Affiliations

  • Australian National University, Australia

    Simon Haines

About the author

SIMON HAINES is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).

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