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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Peggy Thompson Jane Austen uses “habit” and its variants four times as often in Mansfield Park as she does in her previous novel, Pride and Prejudice . In what seems, then, to be a deliberate exploration of habit, the novel repeatedly recalls Aristotle's views on habit, which could well have been...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 January 2016
...-Augustan writers addressed the ques-
tion: how do poetic descriptions of action make us imagine moving
images?2 Restoration critics traced conceptual links between motion and
emotion back to the ancient world. Classical theorizations of “bringing-
before-the-eyes”—what Aristotle called pro ommatōn...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Aristotle's On Memory and Reminiscence , it reflects Ravaisson's more pervasive Aristotelianism, including his fundamental account of habit as key to human nature: It is our nature or disposition to develop and change our dispositions, and so acquire second natures. 13 For Ravaisson, habit is also key...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., as in: Horkheimer keeps telling us that “instrumental reason” is
a problem and has colonized the lifeworld — so . . . what was that other kind
of reason again? But where Habermas looked to Kant to equip the Left with
a noninstrumental rationality, MacIntyre looked instead to Aristotle, whose
philosophy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
...: From Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” to Modern
Brain Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 194. $18. ISBN 0-226-30980-0
Brycchan Carey. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing,
Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760 – 1807 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Pp 240.
$69.95. ISBN...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 28–51.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of literary criticism up through the neoclassical era. Alastair
Fowler’s useful schematization of genres identified by critics from Cicero
to Dryden demonstrates the extent to which Aristotle’s Poetics governed
subsequent systems.8 Daniel Javitch suggests that prior...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., as originally articulated in Aristotle’s Rhetoric, involves the
speaker representing his own character (as sincere, virtuous, knowledgeable,
authoritative, and so on), along with convincing character sketches of other
political figures and of the audience itself. Bullard claims that Burke’s rhetori-
cal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 106–111.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with turning
to judgment rather than relying on a putatively “Aristotelian . . . emphasis . . .
on sensation, intuition, and imagination” (31), I would suggest that it is Aris-
totle in book 6 of the Nicomachean Ethics who offers us a viable model of judg-
ment. For Aristotle, practical wisdom (phronēsis...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
... calls the
“immanent frame,” not subsumed.1
MacIntyre argues something else, that Western history experiences a
radical break: an old ethos centered on the practice of virtues, which passed
from Aristotle to Aquinas, and into European pre-Reformation culture...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... was obliged to adhere to the historical record, regardless of
whether or not the information it presented cast the nation and its heroes
in a pleasing light: “Aristotle tells us, That Poetry is something more excel-
lent, and more philosophical, than History, and does not inform us what
has been done...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
... sozialen Sprache (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2006), 309. 3. Immanuel Kant, “Inaugural Dissertation” in Theoretical Philosophy , 1755–1770 , trans. David Walford (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2002), 397 [ Akademieausgabe , 2:403]. 2. Aristotle, Physics , in The Complete Works...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 112–122.
Published: 01 September 2012
... “is attributable ‘not to depravity’ but to a
serious error ‘performed in ignorance12), the classic definition of the tragic
hero.7 Richardson did not need Aristotle’s theory of tragedy to create his great
tragic heroine. Clarissa is both responsible and blameless because of the logic
of the exceptional...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
... processes,” drawing on Aristotle and
Galen as well as Gassendi’s mainstay, Epicurean mechanistic atomism and sen-
sualism. Koch provides a fine, nuanced overview of this tradition (25 – 31). Des-
cartes claims greater autonomy not only for the mind, but for the body, “while
still maintaining...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 January 2016
... has its own parochial moments. The text is well informed
about eighteenth-century religious institutions, but largely innocent of eigh-
teenth-century religious discourse, whether homiletic, devotional, or contro-
versial. Excepting Aristotle and a very brief mention of Horace in chapter 4...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 72–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Changeling, cited in Thomas Laqueur, (“Amor veneris,
vel dulcedo appeletur in Fragments for a History of the Human Body, vol. 3, ed. Michel
Feher, et al. (N.Y.: Zone, 1989), p. 129, n. 80.
6. Aristotle’s Complete Masterpiece, in Three Parts, Displaying...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and Keats. The most eccentric part of the book is a curious “Sympo-
sium,” Oya’s own little play, an imagined conversation between James North-
cote, William Hazlitt, John Keats, Samuel Johnson, and Aristotle, who trade
bons mots mostly extracted from their works.
The most rewarding of the works...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
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to or care about them, traditional poetics assumed that readers, and view-
ers, responded to characters who are real. As Aristotle says, what is possible
arouses conviction, and as Boileau echoes, one is not moved by what one does
not believe. So, stories of real, historically renowned, or traditionally...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 99–104.
Published: 01 April 2015
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ment, see Thomas Pfau, “The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the
Stoics, and Rousseau,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51 (2010):
289–316.
3. See Hina Nazar, Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age
of Sensibility (New York: Fordham Univ...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 28–33.
Published: 01 January 2009
... deliberate turning away” or veering away from the human’s
early dependence on others; Hobbes rather calls a widespread, mistaken notion
(following from Aristotle’s idea of man as a political animal by nature) into
question through the use of a counterfactual supposition. There is a fault at
the heart...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
...), 374 – 80; the introduction to The Art of
Criticism, translated by “A Person of Quality” (1705) from Dominique Bouhours’s La
manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d’esprit (New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles, 1981);
and the introduction to Reflections on Aristotle’s Treatise of Poesie (1674...
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