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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... needs the contrast with history as much as our under- standing of history needs the contrast with fiction " ( 148-49 ) . The tension between history and fiction is unresolvable because the two terms work as dialectical opposites rather ...
... needs the contrast with history as much as our under- standing of history needs the contrast with fiction " ( 148-49 ) . The tension between history and fiction is unresolvable because the two terms work as dialectical opposites rather ...
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... needs . It consults death in accordance with the needs of life " ( 41 ) . To be embedded in one's own time is the condition of all historiog- raphy . " Objectivity " can only mean that the 125 Commanding the Past.
... needs . It consults death in accordance with the needs of life " ( 41 ) . To be embedded in one's own time is the condition of all historiog- raphy . " Objectivity " can only mean that the 125 Commanding the Past.
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... needs . Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion , written in the 1750s and published posthumously in 1779 , has always been recognized as a polemical masterpiece . Historians of philosophy have tended to dwell on its sequence of ...
... needs . Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion , written in the 1750s and published posthumously in 1779 , has always been recognized as a polemical masterpiece . Historians of philosophy have tended to dwell on its sequence of ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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