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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... historian some tincture of philosophy and criti- cism " ( 7 : 25–26n ) . Throughout the Decline and Fall “ philosophical ” is a regular term of praise , reflecting “ the spirit of inquiry ” which Gibbon finds in such works as ...
... historian some tincture of philosophy and criti- cism " ( 7 : 25–26n ) . Throughout the Decline and Fall “ philosophical ” is a regular term of praise , reflecting “ the spirit of inquiry ” which Gibbon finds in such works as ...
الصفحة 106
... historian's role is therefore to join up the facts , or to fill in the gaps between them , in the way that empiricist theory ascribes to all interpretations of the past , personal as well as historical . A positiv- ist historiography ...
... historian's role is therefore to join up the facts , or to fill in the gaps between them , in the way that empiricist theory ascribes to all interpretations of the past , personal as well as historical . A positiv- ist historiography ...
الصفحة 107
... historian who can make better sense of Arabian history than Arabs can : The art and genius of history have ever been unknown to the Asiatics ; they are ignorant of the laws of criticism ; and our monkish chronicles of the same period ...
... historian who can make better sense of Arabian history than Arabs can : The art and genius of history have ever been unknown to the Asiatics ; they are ignorant of the laws of criticism ; and our monkish chronicles of the same period ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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