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Negative capability

Negative capability is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary…

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Use by Keats

Use of the word 'negative'

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Criticism

In film, poems, songs, and popular culture

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Negative capability

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related to Further reading · 26
Negative capability → An Essay, Bate, Bradley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Contra Mundum Press, Free Press, Introduction, ISBN, Its Situation, Its Task, Keats, Maura Del Serra, New York, Oxford Lectures, Passion, Personality, Poetry, Roberto, Roberto Mangabeira
related to Prepoetry · 12
Negative capability → At, Automatic, Coleridge, Emotion, Frenzy, Negative, One, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Truth's Ventriloquist, Wordsworth, Yeats
related to Criticism · 10
Negative capability → David Fuller, Fish, He, In, In The Life, More, Sonnets, Stanley Fish, Unger, Unger's
related to Dimitris Lyacos · 7
Negative capability → Berfrois Magazine Lyacos, Dimitris Lyacos, Greek, In, Their, Unlike, We
related to Wilfred Bion · 7
Negative capability → British, British Independent School, For Bion, His, Keats's, The, Wilfred Bion
related to Roberto Mangabeira Unger · 6
Negative capability → Brazilian, In, Keats, Negative, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Unger
related to Use of the word 'negative' · 6
Negative capability → Another, Grecian, In, Keats, Negative, The
related to Zen · 6
Negative capability → In, Keats, Satori, The, The Zen, Zen
related to In film, poems, songs, and popular culture · 5
Negative capability → Bern Nix, In, Keats, Manhattan, Woody Allen
related to Mindfulness · 5
Negative capability → Fight, It, Teachers, They, When

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Negative capabilityis acapacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty0.90text
Negative capabilityis akey component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context0.90text
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismIn0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismStanley Fish0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismHe0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismUnger's0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismFish0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismUnger0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismMore0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismIn The Life0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismSonnets0.60section
Negative capabilityrelated to CriticismDavid Fuller0.60section

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