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The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (jadal) as
a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic
legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a
more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal
studies. The author introduces and develops a dialectics-based
analytical method for the study of pre-modern Islamic legal
argumentation, examines parallels and divergences between
Aristotelian dialectic and early juridical jadal-theory, and
proposes a multi-component paradigm-the Dialectical Forge Model-to
account for the power of jadal in shaping Islamic law and legal
theory.In addition to overviews of current evolutionary narratives
for Islamic legal theory and dialectic, and expositions on key
texts, this work shines an analytical light upon the considerably
sophisticated "proto-system" of juridical dialectical teaching and
practice evident in Islam's second century, several generations
before the first "full-system" treatises of legal and dialectical
theory were composed. This proto-system is revealed from analyses
of dialectical sequences in the 2nd/8th century Kitab Ikhtilaf
al-'Iraqiyyin / 'Iraqiyyayn (the "subject-text") through a lens
molded from 5th/11th century jadal-theory treatises (the
"lens-texts"). Specific features thus uncovered inform the
elaboration of a Dialectical Forge Model, whose more general
components and functions are explored in closing chapters.
The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (jadal) as
a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic
legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a
more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal
studies. The author introduces and develops a dialectics-based
analytical method for the study of pre-modern Islamic legal
argumentation, examines parallels and divergences between
Aristotelian dialectic and early juridical jadal-theory, and
proposes a multi-component paradigm-the Dialectical Forge Model-to
account for the power of jadal in shaping Islamic law and legal
theory.In addition to overviews of current evolutionary narratives
for Islamic legal theory and dialectic, and expositions on key
texts, this work shines an analytical light upon the considerably
sophisticated "proto-system" of juridical dialectical teaching and
practice evident in Islam's second century, several generations
before the first "full-system" treatises of legal and dialectical
theory were composed. This proto-system is revealed from analyses
of dialectical sequences in the 2nd/8th century Kitab Ikhtilaf
al-'Iraqiyyin / 'Iraqiyyayn (the "subject-text") through a lens
molded from 5th/11th century jadal-theory treatises (the
"lens-texts"). Specific features thus uncovered inform the
elaboration of a Dialectical Forge Model, whose more general
components and functions are explored in closing chapters.
During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts'
was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in
the English language. However, there have been no editions of the
poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition
contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of
the eighteenth-century sublime. There is a commentary which
explains historical and linguistic obscurities, and a history of
the poem's publication. The text is based on the first editions of
the separate 'Nights', and the old spelling has been retained. The
editions are collated here, and all substantive variants recorded.
Dr Cornford's critical introduction discusses the conception of the
poet's role; Young's attitude to the 'imagination' in the context
of contemporary epistemology; eighteenth-century attitudes to death
and immortality as expressed in sermons and devotional literature;
and the critical reception of the poem in Britain and Europe. This
discussion seeks to explain why a poem of Christian consolation,
orthodox and ancient in its theology, became a seminal work in a
secular cult of sepulchral melancholoy.
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Young's Night Thoughts
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