Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and JohnsonUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 262 من الصفحات During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism was a considered response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. |
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... Philo retorts with a very Johnsonian appeal : " But this is contrary to every one's feeling and experience ; it is contrary to an authority so established as nothing can subvert " ( 201 ) . The only escape from despair , Philo says , is ...
... Philo retorts with a very Johnsonian appeal : " But this is contrary to every one's feeling and experience ; it is contrary to an authority so established as nothing can subvert " ( 201 ) . The only escape from despair , Philo says , is ...
الصفحة 140
... PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's , but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth " ( 228 ) . This is usually regarded as a red herring intended to distract attention from Hume's own identification with ...
... PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's , but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth " ( 228 ) . This is usually regarded as a red herring intended to distract attention from Hume's own identification with ...
الصفحة 142
... Philo has Cleanthes in a bind because both disputants accept the modern premise that William James states in Pragmatism : The truth of " God " has to run the gauntlet of all our other truths . It is on trial by them and they on trial by ...
... Philo has Cleanthes in a bind because both disputants accept the modern premise that William James states in Pragmatism : The truth of " God " has to run the gauntlet of all our other truths . It is on trial by them and they on trial by ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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