The Age of Reasons (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

by: Wendy Motooka (Author)

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Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2013/10/25

Language: English

Print Length: 300 pages

ISBN-10: 0415862590

ISBN-13: 9780415862592

Book Description

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 Stee 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.

About the Author

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 Stee 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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