Vincent Sherry
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195178180
- eISBN:
- 9780199788002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178180.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter puts the Liberal support of the Great War in the context of 19th-century British Liberalism. This legacy places an exceptionally high degree of value on Reason, a priority that results ...
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This chapter puts the Liberal support of the Great War in the context of 19th-century British Liberalism. This legacy places an exceptionally high degree of value on Reason, a priority that results often in a reliance on verbal reason over factual evidence. This susceptibility is evidenced in the rhetoric of support for the war, which was at odds with the major tenets of Liberal policy, and so evinced a most strenuous exercise of sheer verbal rationalization. The language of “seeming reason” is followed across a wide body of writing in support of the war, ranging from the partisan press to scholarly articles and monographs. The prevalence of this new tone in national politics is established as the basis of a number of verbal initiatives in literary modernism, beginning with the critical work of I. A. Richards, whose signature doctrine of “pseudo-statement” answers specifically to the tone of the political times.Less
This chapter puts the Liberal support of the Great War in the context of 19th-century British Liberalism. This legacy places an exceptionally high degree of value on Reason, a priority that results often in a reliance on verbal reason over factual evidence. This susceptibility is evidenced in the rhetoric of support for the war, which was at odds with the major tenets of Liberal policy, and so evinced a most strenuous exercise of sheer verbal rationalization. The language of “seeming reason” is followed across a wide body of writing in support of the war, ranging from the partisan press to scholarly articles and monographs. The prevalence of this new tone in national politics is established as the basis of a number of verbal initiatives in literary modernism, beginning with the critical work of I. A. Richards, whose signature doctrine of “pseudo-statement” answers specifically to the tone of the political times.
Seymour Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199927555
- eISBN:
- 9780190256227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199927555.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter introduces the reader to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET), a new theory of personality that coherently integrates the most important insights from the classic theories of ...
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This chapter introduces the reader to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET), a new theory of personality that coherently integrates the most important insights from the classic theories of personality. In particular, it examines the CET assumption that humans operate with two information processing systems, an “experiential system,” which automatically learns from experience, and a “rational system,” which is a verbal reasoning system. It first considers the views of Sigmund Freud and of cognitive science with regards to the unconscious before comparing the operating principles and attributes of the experiential and rational systems.Less
This chapter introduces the reader to the cognitive-experiential theory (CET), a new theory of personality that coherently integrates the most important insights from the classic theories of personality. In particular, it examines the CET assumption that humans operate with two information processing systems, an “experiential system,” which automatically learns from experience, and a “rational system,” which is a verbal reasoning system. It first considers the views of Sigmund Freud and of cognitive science with regards to the unconscious before comparing the operating principles and attributes of the experiential and rational systems.
