The Age of Reasons : Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain Hardback
by Wendy Motooka
Part of the Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series
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Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons.
Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism.
Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka argues that the legacy of sentimentalism is the social sciences.
This book raises our understanding of eighteenth-century British culture and its relation to the 'rational' culture of economics that is growing ever more prevasive today.
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- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/07/1998
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- ISBN:9780415179416
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/07/1998
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- ISBN:9780415179416