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Philosophical Chaucer

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Medieval Literature and History Medieval Philosophy and Theology Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his explorations of love, sex and gender. Partly through fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's position in relation to the association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often thought of as distinctively modern. The literary experiments of the Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains vital to our own attempts to understand agency, desire and their histories.

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1997The Psychic Life of Power 1996The Sources of Normativity 1988The Importance of What We Care About 1993Shame and Necessity 1997The Queen of America Goes to Washington City 1998Sex in Public 1993The Reasons We Can Share: An Attack on the Distinction Between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Values 2001Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective

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