Romanticism, Scientism, and the Lost Art of Philosophy
Date and Time
Location
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
SPEAKER: Nancy Yousef, Rutgers University
The relationship between philosophy and literature that Romantic poets and thinkers took for granted, and that was sustained in later 19th c. intellectual culture, came to be rejected in the early decades of the twentieth century by a scientifically committed philosophical vanguard. Postwar developments in Anglo-American philosophy have the driven the field ever more decisively out of alignment with the humanistic disciplines. This talk asks what the enterprise of literary studies might still share with philosophy—and how Romanticism can help us recover a sense of their entwined history, common language, and shared imaginative aspirations.
About the Speaker
Nancy Yousef is Distinguished Professor of English in the Department of English at Rutgers University.
Co-sponsored by Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities.