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Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact?


In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the present, engaging with work by major poets and critics, but also contemporary philosophers. Rather than seeing impersonality exclusively as a literary historical phenomenon, Adams argues that we should understand it as an attempt to address skeptical problems arising from the limitations of first-person experience.

Defending impersonality as a response to skeptical problems, including doubts about the publicity of our experiences, our knowledge of other minds, the capacity of our language to describe the world, the relationship between mind and body, and the fictionality and continuity of our sense of self, Adams analyzes what he calls experiments in impersonality as means of working through skeptical do

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/01/2025
      ISBN13: 9781350259645, 978-1350259645
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      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact?


      In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the present, engaging with work by major poets and critics, but also contemporary philosophers. Rather than seeing impersonality exclusively as a literary historical phenomenon, Adams argues that we should understand it as an attempt to address skeptical problems arising from the limitations of first-person experience.

      Defending impersonality as a response to skeptical problems, including doubts about the publicity of our experiences, our knowledge of other minds, the capacity of our language to describe the world, the relationship between mind and body, and the fictionality and continuity of our sense of self, Adams analyzes what he calls experiments in impersonality as means of working through skeptical do

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