Regulating Confusion

Samuel Johnson and the Crowd

Autor: Thomas Reinert

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With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied w...

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Autor

Thomas Reinert

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engleză

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Publicat

1996

Pagini

208

EAN

9780822317173

ISBN

0822317176

Enbook ID

04936618

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Duke University Press

Greutate

331

Dimensiuni

140 x 229 x 15

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With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behaviour. In so doing, they set the stage for a form of political thought divorced from traditional moral reflection. In "Regulating Confusion" Thomas Reinert places Samuel Johnson in the context of this development and investigates Johnson's relation to an emerging modernity. Ambivalent about the disruption, confusion, perplexity, and boundless variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection but also troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. "Regulating Confusion" explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos.It discusses his critique of moral generalizations, concept of moral reflection as a symbolic gesture, and account of what happens to the notion of character when individuals, having lost the support of moral convention, become faces in a crowd. Reflecting generally on the relationship between skepticism and political ideology, Reinert also discusses Johnson's political skepticism and the forms of speculation and action it authorized. Challenging prevalent psychologizing and humanistic interpretations, "Regulating Confusion" leaves behind the re-emergent view of Johnson as a reactionary ideologue and presents him in a theoretically sophisticated context. It offers his style of skepticism as a model of poise in the face of confusion about the nature of political truth and personal responsibility and demonstrates his value as a resource for students of culture struggling with contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and politics.

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