Titlebook: Samuel Johnson: An Analysis; Charles H. Hinnant Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988 anthropology

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Book 1988g for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for Johnson‘s moral vision. Hinnant‘s book will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding what is most modern in Johnson‘s thought and writings.

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s, defining for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for Johnson‘s moral vision. Hinnant‘s book will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding what is most modern in Johnson‘s thought and writings.978-1-349-19208-3

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Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation. He offers a lucid exposition of its ideas and methods, defining for the first time its relation to an important strand in eighteenth-century intellectual history, and assessing its implications for John

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Desire, Emulation and the Dialectic of Domination and Servitude in ,,and engage in a confrontation with the world. Whereas the perceiving consciousness of the ‘spectator’ or ‘rambler’ seeks merely to study and comprehend the world, the desiring mind of the ‘adventurer’ seeks to appropriate it, to make it its own. Johnson’s most detailed discussion of desire occurs in

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The Decline of the Heroic: from , to ,lished in 1738 and 1748, are similarly preoccupied with antitheses of hope and fear, bravery and cunning, heroic and servile states of consciousness. But where . adopts a position complementary to that of . represents a decided change in point of view. This change is most apparent in its attitude to

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,‘The Maze of Variation’: Johnson’s Philosophy of Language in the , and ,bservation cannot explain what, in Quine’s own words, is ‘formal’ about the lexicographer’s practice, but it is valuable in drawing attention to the systematic, theoretical dimension of his labours. This applies with particular cogency to the case of Samuel Johnson, since surprisingly little has bee

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The Choice of Life: Art and Nature in ,ocated on a horizon of vacuity, can never be realized in the natural world. The movement of desire is that of a poignant yearning and a disillusioned satiety: the deficient ‘tedium’ of an expectation that precedes ‘endeavour’ and the excessive ‘disgust’ of a ‘fulness’ that follows attainment. Given

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The Anthropology of Natural Scarcity in ,nded essay in cultural investigation and interpretation. As such, it is probably a companion to the theory of travel writing that Johnson put forth more than a decade earlier in ., No. 97. In that essay, Johnson attacks what he regards as the predictable narratives and generalized decor of most trav