The Metaphysical Society 1869 1880

Author : Catherine Marshall,Bernard Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192585523

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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. The contributors shed light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society as well as the alliances that they formed with fellow members. The collection also examines the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the volume contributes to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870's, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.

Author : Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0191867780

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The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880 by Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England Pdf

Author : Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199643032

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The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880 by Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England Pdf

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena (first resolution of the Society in April 1869). The Society was a private club which gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The papers they produced are key primary sources which shed new light on the ideas of their authors on the burning subjects of the day, ranging from the existence and personality of God to the nature of conscience or the existence of the soul. They are a legacy of a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress. The dissolution of the Society in 1880 did not diminish the value of the papers: they illustrate a tradition of private, open discussion among famous men of the most widely varying views; they offer detailed insight into the evolution of the relationships between different schools of Victorian scientific and religious thought; and they bring to light heretofore under-represented points of conflict and harmony. All 95 papers are included, accompanied by introductions and scholarly notes that set each paper into their proper context.

Author : Alan Willard Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005494052

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The Metaphysical Society by Alan Willard Brown Pdf

Author : Catherine Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : LCCN:2013947878

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The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880: Introduction, papers 1-30 by Catherine Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England Pdf

Author : Catherine Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : LCCN:2013947878

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The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880: Papers 65-95, bibliographies and index by Catherine Marshall,Bernard V. Lightman,Richard England Pdf

Author : Catherine Marshall,Bernard Lightman,Richard England
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192585516

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The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) by Catherine Marshall,Bernard Lightman,Richard England Pdf

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. The contributors shed light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society as well as the alliances that they formed with fellow members. The collection also examines the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the volume contributes to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870's, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Learned institutions and societies
ISBN : OXFORD:555063201

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Papers Read at the Meetings of the Metaphysical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Willard Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458905132

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The Metaphysical Society by Alan Willard Brown Pdf

Author : Lord Arthur Russell,Lord Arthur John Edward Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : CHI:18451408

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Papers Read at the Meetings of the Metaphysical Society by Lord Arthur Russell,Lord Arthur John Edward Russell Pdf

Author : Kathryn Ledbetter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317046240

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Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals by Kathryn Ledbetter Pdf

This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Tennyson published more than sixty poems in serial publications, from his debut as a Cambridge prize-winning poet with "Timbuctoo" in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal to his last public composition as Poet Laureate with "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale" in The Nineteenth Century. In addition, poems such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were shaped by his reading of newspapers. Ledbetter explores the ironies and tensions created by Tennyson's attitudes toward publishing in Victorian periodicals and the undeniable benefits to his career. She situates the poet in an interdependent commodity relationship with periodicals, viewing his individual poems as textual modules embedded in a page of meaning inscribed by the periodical's history, the poet's relationship with the periodical's readers, an image sharing the page whether or not related to the poem, and cultural contexts that create new meanings for Tennyson's work. Her book enriches not only our understanding of Tennyson's relationship to periodical culture but the textual implications of a poem's relationship with other texts on a periodical page and the meanings available to specific groups of readers targeted by individual periodicals.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476640846

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Alfred Tennyson by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.

Author : Eng ). Metaphysical Society (London
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1377294927

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Papers Read at the Meetings of the Metaphysical Society by Eng ). Metaphysical Society (London Pdf

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Author : Michael S. Reidy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318286

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The Age of Scientific Naturalism by Michael S. Reidy Pdf

The essays in this volume focus on the way Victorian Physicist John Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and journals and challenge assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.

Author : Paul Lawrence Farber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052092097X

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The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics by Paul Lawrence Farber Pdf

Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory. Farber describes three upsurges of enthusiasm for evolutionary ethics. The first came in the early years of mid-nineteenth century evolutionary theories; the second in the 1920s and '30s, in the years after the cultural catastrophe of World War I; and the third arrived with the recent grand claims of sociobiology to offer a sound biological basis for a theory of human culture. Unlike many who have written on evolutionary ethics, Farber considers the responses made by philosophers over the years. He maintains that their devastating criticisms have been forgotten—thus the history of evolutionary ethics is essentially one of oft-repeated philosophical mistakes. Historians, scientists, social scientists, and anyone concerned about the elusive basis of selflessness, altruism, and morality will welcome Farber's enlightening book.