The Enlightenment of sympathy reflective sentimentalism in the eighteenth century and today
Rationalists, the most famous of whom was Kant, posited a mind that was hierarchically arranged, with reason sitting atop of the passions. Yet as Michael Frazer argues, there were in fact two enlightenments - the sentimentalist enlightenment and the rationalist one - and this book reclaims the impor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2010, 2010
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Rationalists, the most famous of whom was Kant, posited a mind that was hierarchically arranged, with reason sitting atop of the passions. Yet as Michael Frazer argues, there were in fact two enlightenments - the sentimentalist enlightenment and the rationalist one - and this book reclaims the importance of the former |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780199866687 0199866686 |