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- Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
Enlightened Sentiments reassesses the Enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism." Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly affective culture of sensibility elides its critical motif of moral and aesthetic judgment, and underrates its contributions to the key Enlightenment norm of autonomy. Drawing upon novelists from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen, and theorists of judgment from David Hume to Hannah Arendt, she contends that sentimental judgment complicates received understandings of liberal ethics as grounded in the opposition of reason and feeling, and autonomy and sociability, and as such, implies a powerful counter-challenge to postmodernist critiques of modernity as the harbinger principally of instrumentalist reason and disciplinary power.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1. Reconstructing Sentimentalism
- pp. 11-36
- 3. Judging Clarissa’s Heart
- pp. 59-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823249350
Related ISBN(s)
9780823240074
MARC Record
OCLC
830023589
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No