The Romantic Syndrome: Toward a New Method in Cultural Anthropology and History of Ideas

by W.T. Jones

In this age of specialism philosophers, like other specialists, tend to take in each other's washing. Here, perhaps imprudently, I attempt to break out of this pattern. Though I am by profes- sion a philosopher, I am addressing primarily, not other philo- sophers, but cultural anthropologists, sociologists, historians of ideas, and literary and art critics. Thus, while there are chapters in this book on metaphysics and political theory, I do not ask,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940150413X
• ISBN13: 9789401504133
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"