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

Sachs, Arieh

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0801805724 ISBN 13: 9780801805721

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1967
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801805724
• ISBN 13: 9780801805721
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 146
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile