Samuel Johnson S Pragmatism And Imagination

Author : Stefka Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527521094

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Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination by Stefka Ritchie Pdf

The central theme of this book is an under-studied link between the canon of Francis Bacon’s and Isaac Newton’s scientific and philosophical thought and Samuel Johnson’s critical approach that can be traced in a textual study of his literary works. The interpretive framework adopted here encourages familiarity with the history and philosophy of science, confirming that the history of ideas is an entirely human construct that constitutes an integral part of intellectual history. This further endorses the argument that intermediality can only be of benefit to future research into the richness of Johnson’s literary style. As perceived boundaries are crossed between conventionally distinct communication media, the profile of Johnson that emerges is of a writer of passionate intelligence who was able to combine a pragmatic approach to knowledge with flights of imagination as a true artist.

Author : Arieh Sachs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421435404

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Passionate Intelligence by Arieh Sachs Pdf

Originally published in 1967. Professor Sachs shows the inner coherence of Samuel Johnson's thought by pointing out the interconnectedness of his remarks on religious, moral, aesthetic, political, and psychological subjects. Reason and imagination, the central concepts in the Johnsonian ethos, are elucidated with reference to "vacuity," "attention," "novelty," "diversity," and other words to which Johnson attached special significance. Johnson emerges as an original thinker of the English Christian-humanist heritage; he "is to be read in the same spirit as Pascal." Primarily concerned with the relation between Johnson's ideas and the long tradition of which they are the culmination, Sachs also emphasizes the relevance of Johnson's thought to the twentieth century.

Author : John J. Kaag
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739167809

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Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism by John J. Kaag Pdf

Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism provides an account of the life and writings of Ella Lyman Cabot (1866-1934), a woman who received formal training, but not formal recognition, in the field of classical American philosophy. It highlights the themes of idealism, pragmatism and feminism as they emerged in the course of career as an educational reformer and ethicist that spanned nearly four decades. Cabot's writings, developed in graduate seminars at Harvard and Radcliffe at the turn of the century complement, and in many cases anticipate, the thinking of the "fathers" of the American philosophical cannon: Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, William James, and John Dewey. Her formal philosophical writing focuses on the concepts of growth, creativity, and the moral imagination--a fact that is especially interesting given that these concepts are developed by a woman who faced serious obstacles in her personal and intellectual development. Indeed, these concepts are not merely philosophical ideals, but practical tools that Ella Lyman Cabot used to negotiate the gender roles and intellectual marginalization that she faces at the turn of the century. The discipline of philosophy was very slow to incorporate the insights of women into its self-definition. An analysis of the writings of Ella Lyman Cabot reveals this point, but also the pointed ways in which she sought to express her genuinely creative insights.

Author : J. C. D. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521478855

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Samuel Johnson by J. C. D. Clark Pdf

This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint, reversing the orthodoxy which has dominated the subject for over thirty years. Jonathan Clark, who has written extensively on English and American religion, ideology and politics in the eighteenth century, presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics, obscured since Macaulay, are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the Restoration and the age of Romanticism. This book will therefore be of interest not only to Johnsonians but to historians of ideas and students of English literature.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082225206

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The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Greg Clingham,Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521888219

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Samuel Johnson After 300 Years by Greg Clingham,Philip Smallwood Pdf

To mark the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth in 2009, the specially-commissioned essays contained here review his scholarly reputation. An international team of experts reflects authoritatively on the various dimensions of literary, historical, critical and ethical life touched by Johnson's extraordinary achievement. The volume distinctively casts its net widely and combines consistently innovative thinking on Johnson's historical role with a fresh sense of present criticism. Chapters cover subjects as diverse as Johnson's moral philosophy, his legal thought, his influence on Jane Austen, and the question of the Johnson canon. The contributors examine the larger theoretical and scholarly contexts in which it is now possible to situate his work, and from which it may often be necessary to differentiate it. All the contributors have a distinguished record of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies, Johnson scholarship, and cultural history and theory.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000901714

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674035850

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Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

In Johnson’s own day he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674264809

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Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed of great force of mind and wisdom. Writing a century after Johnson, Ruskin wrote of Johnson’s essays: He “taught me to measure life, and distrust fortune...he saved me forever from false thoughts and futile speculations.” Peter Martin here presents “the heart of Johnson,” a selection of some of Johnson’s best moral and critical essays. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Also included are Johnson’s great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from Lives of the Poets. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Bruce Redford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300113037

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Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson,Bruce Redford Pdf

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain&#ldquo;s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson's essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson's Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the YaleEdition.

Author : Charles H. Hinnant
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874134927

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"Steel for the Mind" by Charles H. Hinnant Pdf

In contrast to the views of many eighteenth-century critics from Addison to Lord Kames, Johnson maintains that mimesis necessarily implies the absence of what it purports to represent and thus can never achieve what Kames calls "ideal presence.".

Author : Winfried Fluck
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Culture
ISBN : 3823341693

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Pragmatism and Literary Studies by Winfried Fluck Pdf

Author : Howard D. Weinbrot
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874138744

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Aspects of Samuel Johnson by Howard D. Weinbrot Pdf

Howard D. Weinbrot's Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781504065344

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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume One by Samuel Johnson Pdf

A brief essay on the life and genius of the prolific eighteenth-century English author, followed by a selection of his poetry, letters, and a novella. Under the pen name “Dr. Johnson,” English writer Samuel Johnson was a biographer, essayist, lexicographer, literary critic, moralist, playwright, poet, and travel writer. The son of a bookseller, he made so many contributions to the English language that he is regarded as one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century literature. The first of nine volumes, The Works of Samuel JohnsonVolume One includes an essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, followed by a collection of his poetry, including his “Drury Lane Prologue,” “On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet,” and “The Vanity of Human Wishes.” A selection of his personal correspondence is featured as well, along with his great satirical novella, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293100510407

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An essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy Pdf