The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880)
Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 August 2019
- ISBN 9780198846499
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 241x162x24 mm
- Weight 622 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 figures 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
List of figures
The Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Society and the Politics of Engagement
The Personalization of Intellectual Combat: James Fitzjames Stephen and the Metaphysical Society
The Editors of the Metaphysical Society or, Disseminating the Ideas of the Metaphysicians
Liberalism and the Metaphysical Society
Part II: Miracles, Unseen Universes, and Natural Causes
The Cross-Examination of the Physiologist : T. H. Huxley and the Resurrection
Cause, Nature, and the limits of language: Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of Theism
Expertise in the Miracles Debate
Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe
Part III: Intuitionism and Empiricism: Mapping the Boundaries
Evolution, Ethics, and the Metaphysical Society, 1869 1875
Between intuition and empiricism: William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind and moral
Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in Papers of the Metaphysical Society
Catholics and the Metaphysical Basis of Science
Postscript
Index
