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‘This book carves out a distinctive and important space in the border-zone betweenphilosophy, literary theory, and cultural history.’Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy,Cardiff University‘Swift’s remarkable [book] stands out as a highly theoretical study in at least two respects:its engagement with figures who defined theory before the advent of the New Historicismand its forceful re-reading of texts by Kant and Rousseau that fostered deconstruction. . . Swift’s study is a major intervention in what might be described either as postdeconstructivephilosophical criticism or theoretically advanced intellectual history.’Margaret Russett, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy proposes a radical re-visioning of Romantic literature bydeveloping a new insight into its philosophical importance. It challenges both a number of recentattacks on philosophical reason, and new historicist readings of Romanticism, by arguing thatthey fundamentally misinterpret what reason is in strikingly similar ways. Engaging with thephilosophical, political and literary writings of Rousseau, Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft, andwith the deconstruction of Paul de Man and Gayatri Spivak, it suggests that postmodernism’srecent assault on Enlightenment universalism, and on aesthetic autonomy, in the name ofparticularity and heterogeneity underestimates the capacity of reason to orient itself towards formsof anthropological and literary difference.Simon Swift is Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English,University of Leeds, UK. He is author of Hannah Arendt (Routledge, 2008).
