The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415179416 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 296 str.

Wendy Motooka

Opis

This text aims to revise the understanding of 18th-century British culture and its relation to the rational culture of present-day economics and social science. Wendy Motooka explores a rich variety of 18th century literary writing, including Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, and moral philosophy/political economy, including Adam Smith. In joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy and the emerging scientific rationalism, Motooka examines the meaning of reason and of its putative opposite, sentimentalism, arguing controversially that the legacy of sentimentalism is social science.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Turning Authority into Jest; Chapter 2 Common Sense, Moral Sense and Nonsense; Chapter 3 Coming to a Bad End; Chapter 4 Seeing the General View; Chapter 5 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum; Chapter 6 Laying Down the General Rule; Chapter 7 Epilogue;

O autorze

Wendy Motooka is Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA.