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Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England

Marshall Catherine Lightman Bernard England Richard
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198846499
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
622 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
296

Redaktør
Marshall Catherine
Lightman Bernard
England Richard

Biografisk notat

Catherine Marshall is Professor of British Studies at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. Her research focuses mainly on the history of ideas in the second-half of the nineteenth century. She also works on the development of political ideas in Victorian Britain and on their legacy in the twentieth century. She is the co-editor, with Bernard Lightman and Richard England, of a 3-volume critical edition of The papers of The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) (2015). Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities Department at York University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and President (2018-2019) of the History of Science Society. Lightman's research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz). He is one of the general editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall. Richard England is a historian of science and religion and Honors College administrator who has published on the history of evolutionary thought and controversy, with a particular interest in Victorian religious responses to Darwinism. In teaching Honors classes at Salisbury University (Maryland) and Eastern Illinois University he has sought to use his research to illuminate the epistemological and philosophical foundations of contemporary scientific controversies.

Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England

Marshall Catherine Lightman Bernard England Richard
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This volume acts as both an excellent companion book to the three-volume critical edition of The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, as well as a stand-alone introduction to the historical context and ideas discussed in the society. This book comes highly recommended for those invested in the academic study of nineteenth-century British intelligentsia, from whatever methodological angle, be it historical, philosophical, theological, or even sociological.

Elizabeth A. Huddleston, National Institute for Newman Studies

While this conclusion may have truncated the Society's life, it does not vitiate its significance. The essays in this volume do an excellent job of inserting the Society into a wealth of relevant contexts in late Victorian intellectual and cultural life. Debates within Catholicism, ethics, and evolutionary science are all covered. The histories of journalism and the book are highlighted, naturally because many of the Society's impresarios were cultural mediators and so many of its papers ended up in published form in influential journals edited by members, almost a third of them in the Contemporary Review, carefully tracked by Catherine Marshall.

Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Cercles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of English Studies

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. The contributors shed light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society as well as the alliances that they formed with fellow members. The collection also examines the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the volume contributes to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870's, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.
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This book contains essays by important scholars on the historical significance of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). The contributors examine the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them.
Les mer
List of figures The Contributors Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, and Richard England: Introduction Part I: Society and the Politics of Engagement 1: Bruce Kinzer: The Personalization of Intellectual Combat:  James Fitzjames Stephen and the Metaphysical Society 2: Catherine Marshall: The Editors of the Metaphysical Society or, Disseminating the Ideas of the Metaphysicians 3: Andrew Vincent: Liberalism and the Metaphysical Society Part II: Miracles, Unseen Universes, and Natural Causes 4: Gowan Dawson: The Cross-Examination of the Physiologist : T. H. Huxley and the Resurrection 5: Richard England: Cause, Nature, and the limits of language: Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of Theism 6: Anne DeWitt: Expertise in the Miracles Debate 7: W. J. Mander: Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe Part III: Intuitionism and Empiricism: Mapping the Boundaries 8: Ian Hesketh: Evolution, Ethics, and the Metaphysical Society, 1869 1875 9: Piers J. Hale: Between intuition and empiricism: William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind and moral 10: William Sweet: Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in Papers of the Metaphysical Society 11: Bernard Lightman: Catholics and the Metaphysical Basis of Science 12: Richard England, Bernard Lightman, and Catherine Marshall: Postscript Index
Les mer
Offers a detailed analysis of the Metaphysical Society's inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel Examines the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them
Les mer
Catherine Marshall is Professor of British Studies at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. Her research focuses mainly on the history of ideas in the second-half of the nineteenth century. She also works on the development of political ideas in Victorian Britain and on their legacy in the twentieth century. She is the co-editor, with Bernard Lightman and Richard England, of a 3-volume critical edition of The papers of The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) (2015). Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities Department at York University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and President (2018-2019) of the History of Science Society. Lightman's research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz). He is one of the general editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall. Richard England is a historian of science and religion and Honors College administrator who has published on the history of evolutionary thought and controversy, with a particular interest in Victorian religious responses to Darwinism. In teaching Honors classes at Salisbury University (Maryland) and Eastern Illinois University he has sought to use his research to illuminate the epistemological and philosophical foundations of contemporary scientific controversies.
Les mer
Offers a detailed analysis of the Metaphysical Society's inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel Examines the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them
Les mer

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This volume acts as both an excellent companion book to the three-volume critical edition of The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, as well as a stand-alone introduction to the historical context and ideas discussed in the society. This book comes highly recommended for those invested in the academic study of nineteenth-century British intelligentsia, from whatever methodological angle, be it historical, philosophical, theological, or even sociological.

Elizabeth A. Huddleston, National Institute for Newman Studies

While this conclusion may have truncated the Society's life, it does not vitiate its significance. The essays in this volume do an excellent job of inserting the Society into a wealth of relevant contexts in late Victorian intellectual and cultural life. Debates within Catholicism, ethics, and evolutionary science are all covered. The histories of journalism and the book are highlighted, naturally because many of the Society's impresarios were cultural mediators and so many of its papers ended up in published form in influential journals edited by members, almost a third of them in the Contemporary Review, carefully tracked by Catherine Marshall.

Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Cercles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of English Studies

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. The contributors shed light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society as well as the alliances that they formed with fellow members. The collection also examines the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the volume contributes to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870's, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.
Les mer
This book contains essays by important scholars on the historical significance of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). The contributors examine the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them.
Les mer
List of figures The Contributors Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, and Richard England: Introduction Part I: Society and the Politics of Engagement 1: Bruce Kinzer: The Personalization of Intellectual Combat:  James Fitzjames Stephen and the Metaphysical Society 2: Catherine Marshall: The Editors of the Metaphysical Society or, Disseminating the Ideas of the Metaphysicians 3: Andrew Vincent: Liberalism and the Metaphysical Society Part II: Miracles, Unseen Universes, and Natural Causes 4: Gowan Dawson: The Cross-Examination of the Physiologist : T. H. Huxley and the Resurrection 5: Richard England: Cause, Nature, and the limits of language: Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of Theism 6: Anne DeWitt: Expertise in the Miracles Debate 7: W. J. Mander: Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe Part III: Intuitionism and Empiricism: Mapping the Boundaries 8: Ian Hesketh: Evolution, Ethics, and the Metaphysical Society, 1869 1875 9: Piers J. Hale: Between intuition and empiricism: William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind and moral 10: William Sweet: Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in Papers of the Metaphysical Society 11: Bernard Lightman: Catholics and the Metaphysical Basis of Science 12: Richard England, Bernard Lightman, and Catherine Marshall: Postscript Index
Les mer
Offers a detailed analysis of the Metaphysical Society's inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel Examines the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them
Les mer
Catherine Marshall is Professor of British Studies at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. Her research focuses mainly on the history of ideas in the second-half of the nineteenth century. She also works on the development of political ideas in Victorian Britain and on their legacy in the twentieth century. She is the co-editor, with Bernard Lightman and Richard England, of a 3-volume critical edition of The papers of The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) (2015). Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities Department at York University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and President (2018-2019) of the History of Science Society. Lightman's research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz). He is one of the general editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall. Richard England is a historian of science and religion and Honors College administrator who has published on the history of evolutionary thought and controversy, with a particular interest in Victorian religious responses to Darwinism. In teaching Honors classes at Salisbury University (Maryland) and Eastern Illinois University he has sought to use his research to illuminate the epistemological and philosophical foundations of contemporary scientific controversies.
Les mer
Offers a detailed analysis of the Metaphysical Society's inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel Examines the innermost thoughts of the leading intellectuals of the period as they grappled with the changes around them
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198846499
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
622 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
296

Redaktør
Marshall Catherine
Lightman Bernard
England Richard

Biografisk notat

Catherine Marshall is Professor of British Studies at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. Her research focuses mainly on the history of ideas in the second-half of the nineteenth century. She also works on the development of political ideas in Victorian Britain and on their legacy in the twentieth century. She is the co-editor, with Bernard Lightman and Richard England, of a 3-volume critical edition of The papers of The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) (2015). Bernard Lightman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities Department at York University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and President (2018-2019) of the History of Science Society. Lightman's research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition (co-edited with Carin Berkowitz). He is one of the general editors of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, an international collaborative effort to obtain, digitalize, transcribe, and publish all surviving letters to and from Tyndall. Richard England is a historian of science and religion and Honors College administrator who has published on the history of evolutionary thought and controversy, with a particular interest in Victorian religious responses to Darwinism. In teaching Honors classes at Salisbury University (Maryland) and Eastern Illinois University he has sought to use his research to illuminate the epistemological and philosophical foundations of contemporary scientific controversies.

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