Robert E Stillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 733758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Stillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stillman |
| SIGNATURE | STILLMAN R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sidney and Europe
What is most important about Philip Sidney’s Europe can be best expressed by a paradox: Sidney needed his cosmopolitan education in Europe in order to think beyond it. The move beyond was as pragmatic as assailing Spanish tyranny by a global assault against Spanish trade, and as visionary as an Arcadian world in which tyranny could be disarmed by force of natural law. Moving chronologically from John Buxton and Charles Osborn to Beatrice Nicollie…
On Not Defending Poetry
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Language, Mind and Nature
Journal Article Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke Get access Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke, by Rhodri Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. xvi + 262. £50). Robert E. Stillman Robert E. Stillman University of Tennessee, Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Is…
In quest of the universal language
The new English translation of Paolo Rossi’s now classic study, Logic and the Art of Memory , presents a useful opportunity to examine contemporary efforts to understand what its subtitle calls “the quest for a universal language.” At the same time, an old seventeenth-century philosophical romance, Thomas Urquhart’s Jewel , affords a good test case for evaluating the success of those contemporary critical efforts — including Rossi’s own. First am…
The Truths of a Slippery World
Against the “presentism “ of current criticism linking the Defence's universalizing epistemology to the absolutism of Soviet-style propaganda, this study historicizes Philip Sidney's poetics as a consciously constructed vehicle of political liberation. The Defence's epistemology is recontextualized as a governing body of assumptions about the nature of knowledge that Sidney derived from the revival of natural law theory among an intellectual elit…
The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the seminal role played by language debates in the cultural politics of early modern England. It sets out to recover the neglected history of those emerging new philosophies that endeavor to align themselves not with radical ideologies but with the conservative interest of centralizing state power
Invitation and Engagement
Invitation and Engagement: Ideology and Wilkins’s Philosophical Language Robert E. Stillman (bio) As early as October of 1662, the Royal Society was urging “Dr. Wilkins . . . to prosecute his design of an universal language.” 1 John Wilkins was among the Society’s most valued communicators: together with Henry Oldenberg, he was appointed one of its two secretaries, and was later assigned to its Correspondence Committee. Asked to supervise the Com…
Sir Philip Sidney
The Politics of Sidney's Pastoral
Politics and pastoral have been linked as inseparably as shepherds and sheep in twentieth-century criticism of genre. Long ago, William Empson taught us to recognize how essential to Renaissance pastoral is its trick of implying beautiful relation between rich and poor. ' Raymond Williams has offered a brilliant Marxist critique of those mystifications employed by sixteenthand seventeenth-century pastoralists on behalf of a developing agrarian ca…
In quest of the universal language
The new English translation of Paolo Rossi’s now classic study, Logic and the Art of Memory , presents a useful opportunity to examine contemporary efforts to understand what its subtitle calls “the quest for a universal language.” At the same time, an old seventeenth-century philosophical romance, Thomas Urquhart’s Jewel , affords a good test case for evaluating the success of those contemporary critical efforts — including Rossi’s own. First am…
The Truths of a Slippery World
Against the “presentism “ of current criticism linking the Defence's universalizing epistemology to the absolutism of Soviet-style propaganda, this study historicizes Philip Sidney's poetics as a consciously constructed vehicle of political liberation. The Defence's epistemology is recontextualized as a governing body of assumptions about the nature of knowledge that Sidney derived from the revival of natural law theory among an intellectual elit…
The Politics of Sidney's Pastoral
Politics and pastoral have been linked as inseparably as shepherds and sheep in twentieth-century criticism of genre. Long ago, William Empson taught us to recognize how essential to Renaissance pastoral is its trick of implying beautiful relation between rich and poor. ' Raymond Williams has offered a brilliant Marxist critique of those mystifications employed by sixteenthand seventeenth-century pastoralists on behalf of a developing agrarian ca…
Sir Philip Sidney
Invitation and Engagement
Invitation and Engagement: Ideology and Wilkins’s Philosophical Language Robert E. Stillman (bio) As early as October of 1662, the Royal Society was urging “Dr. Wilkins . . . to prosecute his design of an universal language.” 1 John Wilkins was among the Society’s most valued communicators: together with Henry Oldenberg, he was appointed one of its two secretaries, and was later assigned to its Correspondence Committee. Asked to supervise the Com…
The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the seminal role played by language debates in the cultural politics of early modern England. It sets out to recover the neglected history of those emerging new philosophies that endeavor to align themselves not with radical ideologies but with the conservative interest of centralizing state power
In quest of the universal language
The new English translation of Paolo Rossi’s now classic study, Logic and the Art of Memory , presents a useful opportunity to examine contemporary efforts to understand what its subtitle calls “the quest for a universal language.” At the same time, an old seventeenth-century philosophical romance, Thomas Urquhart’s Jewel , affords a good test case for evaluating the success of those contemporary critical efforts — including Rossi’s own. First am…
The Truths of a Slippery World
Against the “presentism “ of current criticism linking the Defence's universalizing epistemology to the absolutism of Soviet-style propaganda, this study historicizes Philip Sidney's poetics as a consciously constructed vehicle of political liberation. The Defence's epistemology is recontextualized as a governing body of assumptions about the nature of knowledge that Sidney derived from the revival of natural law theory among an intellectual elit…
Language, Mind and Nature
Journal Article Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke Get access Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke, by Rhodri Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. xvi + 262. £50). Robert E. Stillman Robert E. Stillman University of Tennessee, Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Is…
On Not Defending Poetry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sidney and Europe
What is most important about Philip Sidney’s Europe can be best expressed by a paradox: Sidney needed his cosmopolitan education in Europe in order to think beyond it. The move beyond was as pragmatic as assailing Spanish tyranny by a global assault against Spanish trade, and as visionary as an Arcadian world in which tyranny could be disarmed by force of natural law. Moving chronologically from John Buxton and Charles Osborn to Beatrice Nicollie…
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