The Age of Reasons

Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-86259-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motooka, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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