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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Vacuity of Life
Chapter 2. Cosmic Hierarchy
Chapter 3. The Art of Forgetfulness
Chapter 4. Idle Solitude and Diabolical Imagination
Chapter 5. The General and Particular
Chapter 6. The Fotly of Utopia
Chapter 7. The Rationality of Faith
Abbreviations in Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9781421435398, 978-1421435398
      ISBN10: 142143539X
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      Description

      Book 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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. The Vacuity of Life
      Chapter 2. Cosmic Hierarchy
      Chapter 3. The Art of Forgetfulness
      Chapter 4. Idle Solitude and Diabolical Imagination
      Chapter 5. The General and Particular
      Chapter 6. The Fotly of Utopia
      Chapter 7. The Rationality of Faith
      Abbreviations in Notes
      Index

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