Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences

by Scott Masson

Overview

Noting the traditional focus of the humanities as the study of knowledge in relationship to Truth and God, Masson (English literature, Tyndale U. College, Toronto, Canada) offers an analysis based on his doctoral dissertation of how the Scientific Age eroded that view of wisdom. The author traces the development of modern hermeneutics in the Enlightenment ideas of Schleiermacher and Kant, and Romantic poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. He also parses Hannah Arendt's argument in The Human Condition (1998) that Cartesian ideas and scientific discoveries fostered a new analytic logic not rooted in biblical or classical accounts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815391609
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/29/2017
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Scott Masson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University College in Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

	General Editors' Preface	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction - Two Worlds' Words	1
1	Modern Hermeneutics: The Development of Universal Relativity by Understanding Meaning in Terms of Truth	23
2	Hannah Arendt's Study of the Human Condition	59
3	Wordsworth's Understanding of Nature in the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' (1802) and the Hermeneutic Significance of Feeling	87
4	Shelley's Organic Theology in Mont Blanc	139
5	Keats's Eternal Urn	181
	Conclusion	217
	Bibliography	223
	Index	235