« Oscar Wilde as a Reader of W. K. Clifford »

Bénédicte Coste (1)

1 EMMA - Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone

This presentation is devoted to exploring Oscar Wilde's debt to mathematician and philosopher W. K. Clifford's 'The Ethics of Belief'. Wilde read Clifford while in Oxford and concurred with his ethics in "The Portrait of Mr W. H" (1889)

Mots clés: Oscar Wilde; W. K. Clifford; Ethics of belief; The Portrait of Mr W H

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Philosophie

Bénédicte Coste. « Oscar Wilde as a Reader of W. K. Clifford ». Journée d’études « Believing in the Nineteenth Century: W.K. Clifford / W. James », Bénédicte Coste et Guillaume Tanguy, Dec 2011, Montpellier, France. ⟨hal-01443344⟩