The Age of Reasons

Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain

Business & Finance, Economics, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Wendy Motooka ISBN: 9781134689293
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: May 13, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Wendy Motooka
ISBN: 9781134689293
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: May 13, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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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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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