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Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Released Friday, 24th November 2017
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Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief

Friday, 24th November 2017
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The second and third lecture focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton.
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A series of four lectures delivered by Prof. Victoria Kahn in October 2017, arguing that literature in the Reformation is one vehicle by which religious belief was itself transformed into a human artifact, whether we understand this as a poetic artifact or a mental fiction. This transformation in turn helped produce the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics, with its emphasis on our experience of non-cognitive pleasure in the work of art, and the modern formalist definition of literature, according to which - in the words of one critic- 'literature solves no problems and saves no souls.' This modern definition of literature, in short, has a history, this history is intertwined with the problem of belief, and by returning to the fraught years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in England, we can come to a new understanding of how the trouble with literature has shaped our discipline.

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