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Regulating Confusion : Samuel Johnson and the Crowd
Overview
With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780822317173
- ISBN-10: 0822317176
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: January 1996
- Dimensions: 8.92 x 5.47 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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