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Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and the Modernist Literary Character: Rethinking the Subject through the Everyday

Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and the Modernist Literary Character: Rethinking the Subject... Federico Bellini Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and the Modernist Literary Character Rethinking the Subject through the Everyday The last decade has seen a veritable resurgence of the theme of habit in philo- sophical and critical debates. While for decades the preference had been accorded to either the active forces of will and desire or the contingency and abruptness of the Event, thinkers have recently come back to habit from different paths a - nd per spectives (Bennett et al.; Sparrow and Hutchinson; Carlisle). The polarization of attention around the theme of habit almost seems to mirror the veritable explosion of the discourse on habit which took place about two centuries ago. Even though the philosophical reflection on habit can be traced at least as far back as Aristotle it was at the end of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century that the theme of habit, as asserted in the entry hab o itf ude the Encyclopédie Philoso - phique Universelle, became “a new philosophical challenge” as an effect of “the re- fusal of innate ideas; the sensualist project deriving the modes of understanding from experience (generally exterior experience); the refusal, finally, of Hume’s cate- gory http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and the Modernist Literary Character: Rethinking the Subject through the Everyday

Bellini, Federico
The Comparatist , Volume 40 – Nov 11, 2016
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Federico Bellini Samuel Butler’s Life and Habit and the Modernist Literary Character Rethinking the Subject through the Everyday The last decade has seen a veritable resurgence of the theme of habit in philo- sophical and critical debates. While for decades the preference had been accorded to either the active forces of will and desire or the contingency and abruptness of the Event, thinkers have recently come back to habit from different paths a - nd per spectives (Bennett et al.; Sparrow and Hutchinson; Carlisle). The polarization of attention around the theme of habit almost seems to mirror the veritable explosion of the discourse on habit which took place about two centuries ago. Even though the philosophical reflection on habit can be traced at least as far back as Aristotle it was at the end of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century that the theme of habit, as asserted in the entry hab o itf ude the Encyclopédie Philoso - phique Universelle, became “a new philosophical challenge” as an effect of “the re- fusal of innate ideas; the sensualist project deriving the modes of understanding from experience (generally exterior experience); the refusal, finally, of Hume’s cate- gory

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Published: Nov 11, 2016

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