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In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation.
Preface - List of Abbreviations - Johnson and Newton: Dismantling the Plenum - Vacuity, Time and Happiness in Johnson's Moral Psychology - Desire, Emulation and the Dialectic of Domination and Servitude in Irene - The Decline of the Heroic: from London to The Vanity of Human Wishes - 'The Maze of Variation': Johnson's Philosophy of Language in the Plan and Preface to The Dictionary - The Choice of Life: Art and Nature in Rasselas - The Anthropology of Natural Scarcity in A Journey to the Western Islands - Conclusion - Index