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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... social context , I can- not do better than to invoke J. G. A. Pocock's trenchant remarks in the first chapter of Politics , Language and Time . What he said in 1973 is even truer today : a scholar who studies the ways in which language ...
... social context , I can- not do better than to invoke J. G. A. Pocock's trenchant remarks in the first chapter of Politics , Language and Time . What he said in 1973 is even truer today : a scholar who studies the ways in which language ...
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... social theory is the alleged anomie of individuals cast adrift in a world of epistemological skepticism ; their counterpart to bourgeois com- petitiveness is the complex of social and psychological assumptions that are said to underlie ...
... social theory is the alleged anomie of individuals cast adrift in a world of epistemological skepticism ; their counterpart to bourgeois com- petitiveness is the complex of social and psychological assumptions that are said to underlie ...
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... social usage , and the common law of Great Britain , in Johnson's usage as in Burke's , reflects a similar process ... social roles . Hence , there is no self apart from the social roles , or , put another way , the roles are real , not ...
... social usage , and the common law of Great Britain , in Johnson's usage as in Burke's , reflects a similar process ... social roles . Hence , there is no self apart from the social roles , or , put another way , the roles are real , not ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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