Immanuel Kant

Standard Name: Kant, Immanuel

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle , Plato , Kant , William Whewell , and Frederick Faber .
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
146-7
Textual Features Hannah Arendt
Here she sets out to examine the theory of labor, philosophically considered, as distinguished from work.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press.
277
She defines the human sphere of activity as thevita activa or actively engaged life, a sphere that presupposes...
Textual Features Evelyn Underhill
Indeed, the book can be seen as an attempt to draw the outline for mysticism as a discipline, with its own history, goals, and methods. It is presented as being related to yet distinct from...
Textual Features Kathleen E. Innes
This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn , the Abbé St Pierre , Immanuel Kant , and Tsar Nicholas II .
Textual Features Elizabeth Rigby
Scholars Mitchell and Broomfield observe that like Kant before her and Oscar Wilde after, Eastlake sought to define a realm of human experience to and for which only art could speak, whereas Ruskin believed that...
Publishing Anne Carson
AC dealt another glancing blow to conventional notions of genre in 2001 by titling her next verse novel The Beauty of the Husband. A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. Four poems from this work...
Material Conditions of Writing Kathleen Nott
From early adolescence KN tried to write poetry.
Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
8
This, she felt, was an effort at maturation, using poetry as an attempt . . . to establish the conception of the subjective-real.
Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
9
At...
Literary responses Gertrude Stein
For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
117
while others thought they were offensive and affronting.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
114-17
Harold Acton , British cultural critic, reported that nobody had heard anything like this before.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
283
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
73
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
The book arose from FPC 's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis.
83
as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis.
84
But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...
Intertextuality and Influence Iris Murdoch
In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith J. Simcox
The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
58
Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...
Education Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...
Education Nina Hamnett
She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant.
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.
3
Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...

Timeline

September 1801: A letter to the Anti-Jacobin Review somewhat...

Writing climate item

September 1801

A letter to the Anti-Jacobin Review somewhat prematurely claimed that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (classed as extremely dangerous by the same journal some months earlier) was now forgotten.

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