The aphorism: Fragments from the breakdown of reason

New Literary History

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 409-429

  Morson, Gary Saul ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2003.0035     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, ed., The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection (Dorset, 1981), pp. vii-viii
2. Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George, ed., They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (New York, 1989), pp. vii-xi
3. For an account of Bakhtin's theories of genre, see Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, 1990), pp. 271-305
4. On works that belong by accident or design to more than one genre, see Gary Saul Morson, The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (Austin, 1981)
5. S. Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd, and C. D. C. Reeve, ed., Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle (Indianapolis, 1995), p. 28; hereafter cited in text as RA
6. Sophocles, Oedipus the King, tr. Bernard Knox, in Man and His Fictions: An Introduction to Fiction-Making Its Forms, and Uses, ed. Alvin B. Kernan, Peter Brooks, and Michael Holquist (New York, 1973), p. 357; hereafter cited in text as O
7. These dicta come from the following sources. Dictum a is from Jeremy Bentham, The Principles of Morals and Legislation (New York, 1948), p. 1. G is from René Descartes, "Meditations," in "Discourse on Method" and "Meditations," tr. Laurence J. Lafleur (Indianapolis, 1960), p. 82
8. H is from Descartes, "Discourse on Method," tr. Lafleur, p. 24. J and K are from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, "Discourse on Method, " "Correspondence with Arnauld, " Monadology, tr. George Montgomery (La Salle, Ill., 1989), pp. 19, 10. L is from Catechism, of the Catholic Church (Mahwah, N.J., 1994), p. 13
9. The remaining dicta are from John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, ed. Emily Morison Beck, 15th ed. (Boston, 1980)
10. Elie Halévy, The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism, tr. Mary Morris (Boston, 1955), p. 6
11. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Cambridge, Mass., 1964), p. 490
12. These aphorisms come from the following sources. A and B are from Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, tr. D. C. Lau (Harmondsworth, 1985)
13. D, E, and F are from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, tr. D. W. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (Loudon, 1961). The remainder of the aphorisms are from Bartlett, Familiar Quotations
14. For information about the Tao Te Ching, I rely on A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China (La Salle, Ill., 1989), pp. 215-34; hereafter cited in text as DT
15. The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, tr. Louis Kronenberger (New York, 1959), p. 33
16. As cited in Alan Janik and Stephen Toulmin, Wittgenstein's Vienna (New York, 1973), p. 192
17. Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, ed. Harry Zohn (Chicago, 1990), p. 67