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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... authority were attained in small groups of like - minded persons and in " the private , silent reading of books ... authority so as to exert its power without being crushed by its guilt ” ( “ Johnson and . . . Authority " 198 ) . In fact ...
... authority were attained in small groups of like - minded persons and in " the private , silent reading of books ... authority so as to exert its power without being crushed by its guilt ” ( “ Johnson and . . . Authority " 198 ) . In fact ...
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... authority that lies beyond the bare contemplation of heaven and earth . For Hume , who rejects all authority , religion is the type and often the foundation of false belief , a credulous acceptance ( under social pressure ) of notions ...
... authority that lies beyond the bare contemplation of heaven and earth . For Hume , who rejects all authority , religion is the type and often the foundation of false belief , a credulous acceptance ( under social pressure ) of notions ...
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... authority . Likewise Hume says , with no ambiguity or qualification , that " that power , which at first was founded only on injustice and violence , becomes in time legal and obligatory " ( Treatise 566 ) . But Godwin declares that any ...
... authority . Likewise Hume says , with no ambiguity or qualification , that " that power , which at first was founded only on injustice and violence , becomes in time legal and obligatory " ( Treatise 566 ) . But Godwin declares that any ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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