Passionate Intelligence: Imagination and Reason in the Work of Samuel Johnson - Couverture rigide

Sachs, Arieh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801805724 ISBN 13 : 9780801805721

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Arieh Sachs was a senior lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University, and the Sorbonne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801805724
• ISBN 13: 9780801805721
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 146
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