Immanuel Kant

Standard Name: Kant, Immanuel

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Education Kathleen Nott
Meanwhile KN read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume and Kant .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
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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 Dora Russell
Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant , Heine , Pascal , Racine , and Voltaire . Among English authors, she admired George Meredith (Modern Love))...
Education Amber Reeves
She had set her heart on philosophy when as a schoolgirl she read in Kant about reason vanquishing religion. A report from her tutor, J. N. Keynes (father of the more famous John Maynard Keynes
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., 1932.
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Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...
Education Fanny Holcroft
FH 's upbringing was purposely and radically progressive. Eliza Fenwick 's intention of bringing her own children up without belief in God was shaken when she found herself disgusted & shocked at the blind, coarse...
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 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, 2004.
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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, 1881.
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as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881.
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But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...
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, 1961.
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Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...
Literary responses Gertrude Stein
For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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while others thought they were offensive and affronting.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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Harold Acton , British cultural critic, reported that nobody had heard anything like this before.
qtd. in
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
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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, 1969.
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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, 1969.
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At...
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...
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. Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2004.
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She defines the human sphere of activity as thevita activa or actively engaged life, a sphere that presupposes...

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.
Schmidt, James. “Immanuel Kant: Text and Context”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2003, pp. 147-61.
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