Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and PoliticsUniversity Press of New England, 1989 - 242 pages A collection of essays by distinguished literary critic, editor, teacher, and syndicated columnist Jeffrey Hart. Ranges widely over American and European literature, culture, and politics, pursuing a "moral obligation to be intelligent." |
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... experience we have in common . Johnson was eccentric in appraisal of a number of literary works : " Lycidas , " Lear , Gulliver's Travels , and so forth . Yet he also believed that there was a powerful collective judgment at work ...
... experience we have in common . Johnson was eccentric in appraisal of a number of literary works : " Lycidas , " Lear , Gulliver's Travels , and so forth . Yet he also believed that there was a powerful collective judgment at work ...
Page 210
... experience should be — and have been , as a matter of fact - available for artistic representation . There are , indeed , extreme forms of human experience such as the battlefield , religious ecstasy , and the surgical operating room ...
... experience should be — and have been , as a matter of fact - available for artistic representation . There are , indeed , extreme forms of human experience such as the battlefield , religious ecstasy , and the surgical operating room ...
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... experience of empti- ness , disgust , and alienation , a deep hatred of the actual circum- stances of social life ... experienced as complete lucidity , while un- consciousness is a prison of “ facticity . ” And the emotion includes his ...
... experience of empti- ness , disgust , and alienation , a deep hatred of the actual circum- stances of social life ... experienced as complete lucidity , while un- consciousness is a prison of “ facticity . ” And the emotion includes his ...
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Empiricism Metaphysics and | 15 |
Bloomsday | 31 |
What the Hell Was Socialism? | 39 |
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