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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7162844" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>Thanks!</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p></p><p>The only criticism I've read on REH that I can think of is the Patrice Louinet essays at the back of the relatively recently critical editions of Conan and Kull. I don't recall having read any criticism of HPL, other than the random internet/Wikipedia stuff one comes across while surfing the web on D&D/fantasy-related topics.</p><p></p><p>It just seems to me fairly obvious how they fit within broader ideas/themes unfolding in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In the case of HPL, I would include especially evolutionary biology unsettling conceptions of the place of humans in "creation", and relativity unsettling conceptions of the connection between even very basic human knowledge - eg perceptions of space and time - and the truth about the cosmos. In the case of REH, there is the celebration of a type of human self-assertion (and a related anti-fatalism, but also a type of irony or scepticism about ultimate value) which is a fairly common response to (what Weber called) the "disenchantment" of the world resulting from scientific understanding. (I see it as rather Nietzschean, although I assume REH hadn't read Nietzsche; but in at least one history of philosophy I know - Passmore's "One Hundred Years of Philosophy" - Nietzsche figures in the same chapter as that on Pierce, James, and Dewey, due to similarities in their scepticism about absolutes and their emphasis on human activity as the locus of perception, truth and value; and whether or not REH directly read any of those, the period when REH was writing was also a time of peak direct influence of their ideas on American intellectual culture.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7162844, member: 42582"] Thanks! EDIT: The only criticism I've read on REH that I can think of is the Patrice Louinet essays at the back of the relatively recently critical editions of Conan and Kull. I don't recall having read any criticism of HPL, other than the random internet/Wikipedia stuff one comes across while surfing the web on D&D/fantasy-related topics. It just seems to me fairly obvious how they fit within broader ideas/themes unfolding in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In the case of HPL, I would include especially evolutionary biology unsettling conceptions of the place of humans in "creation", and relativity unsettling conceptions of the connection between even very basic human knowledge - eg perceptions of space and time - and the truth about the cosmos. In the case of REH, there is the celebration of a type of human self-assertion (and a related anti-fatalism, but also a type of irony or scepticism about ultimate value) which is a fairly common response to (what Weber called) the "disenchantment" of the world resulting from scientific understanding. (I see it as rather Nietzschean, although I assume REH hadn't read Nietzsche; but in at least one history of philosophy I know - Passmore's "One Hundred Years of Philosophy" - Nietzsche figures in the same chapter as that on Pierce, James, and Dewey, due to similarities in their scepticism about absolutes and their emphasis on human activity as the locus of perception, truth and value; and whether or not REH directly read any of those, the period when REH was writing was also a time of peak direct influence of their ideas on American intellectual culture.) [/QUOTE]
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