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  • He was not getting much work as a painter, but now he finally found the opportunity to complete his philosophical treatise, which was published in 1805 as An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind.

    william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • He was not getting much work as a painter, but now he finally found the opportunity to complete his philosophical treatise, which was published in 1805 as An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind.

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Wood, “Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution,” in Richard Beeman et. al., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity Chapel Hill, 1987, 69–109.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Wood, “Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution,” in Richard Beeman et. al., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity Chapel Hill, 1987, 69–109.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Wood, “Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution,” in Richard Beeman et. al., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity Chapel Hill, 1987, 69–109.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • They are “Communalism”, “Universalism”, “Disinterestedness”, and “Organized skepticism” later, others added “originality” for the “O”.

    What is "Consensus Science" for Proxies? « Climate Audit 2007

  • Clearing up all Doubts (if any existed) of the Disinterestedness of

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • Disinterestedness (here rendered as a "specificity of aesthetic discourse" that slides away from a "purity of aesthetic experience") is always a detour on the way to what I have termed here sociological reduction, but which one may more generally term the referential horizon of the human. 5

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • Disinterestedness, the virtue of noble minds, being rare in this world, scarcely anything is undertaken without hope of recompense, and what man, toiling solely with a view to recompense, is quite safe from bribery?

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Disinterestedness being the soul of successful journalism, unselfish devotion to

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

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