ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS

ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS
Author: Emma Rothschild
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2013-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674725611

A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.

Enlightened Sentiments

Enlightened Sentiments
Author: Hina Nazar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780823240074

Introduction -- Reconstructing sentimentalism -- Sentimentalism and the discourses of freedom : the aesthetic analogy from Hume to Arendt -- Judging Clarissa's heart -- A sentimental education : Rousseau to Godwin -- Judgment, propriety, and the critique of sensibility: the "sentimental" Jane Austen.

Enlightened Absolutism

Enlightened Absolutism
Author: H.M. Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1990-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1349205923

Each book in this series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter. Each volume, devoted to a central topic or theme, contains specially comisssioned essays from scholars in the relevant field. These provide an assessment of a particular aspect, pointing out areas of development and controversy and indicating where conclusions can be drawn or where further work is necessary, while an editorial introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole. In this text the contributors assess reform and reformers in late 18th century Europe, covering such topics as Catherine the Great, the Danish reformers, the Habsburg Monarchy and events in Spain and Italy.

Constitutional Sentiments

Constitutional Sentiments
Author: András Sajó
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300168616

Constitutional Sentiments provides new insights into the foundations of law, the complexities of legal institutions, and the hidden genealogies of lawmaking. As the book makes clear, constitutions are human creations that embody all aspects of our humanity. It is an example of serious scholarship that will attract readers of all disciplines who have a keen interest in social and political life. --Book Jacket.

Exorbitant Enlightenment

Exorbitant Enlightenment
Author: Alexander Regier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192561987

Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical so exorbitant that they ask us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. Regier presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story: about a group of idiosyncratic figures and institutions, including the Moravians in 1750s London, Henry Fuseli, and Johann Caspar Lavater, as well as the two most exorbitant figures, William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. The books eight chapters show how these authors and institutions shake up common understandings of British literary and European intellectual history and offer a very different, much more counter-intuitive view of the period. Through their distinctive conceptions of language, Blake and Hamann articulate in different yet deeply related ways a radical critique of instrumental thought and institutional religion. They also argue for the irreducible relation between language and the sexual body. In each case, they push against some of the most central cultural and philosophical assumptions, then and now. The book argues that, when taken seriously, these exorbitant figures allow us to uncover and revise some of our own critical orthodoxies.

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
Author: Nicholas T. Phillipson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300174438

Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.

Enlightened Sentiments

Enlightened Sentiments
Author: Hina Nazar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012
Genre: Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN: 9780823249350

"Enlightened Sentiments reassesses the Enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism." Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly affective culture of sensibility elides its critical motif of moral and aesthetic judgment, and underrates its contributions to the key Enlightenment norm of autonomy. Drawing upon novelists from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen, and theorists of judgment from David Hume to Hannah Arendt, she contends that sentimental judgment complicates received understandings of liberal ethics as grounded in the opposition of reason and feeling, and autonomy and sociability, and as such, implies a powerful counter-challenge to postmodernist critiques of modernity as the harbinger principally of instrumentalist reason and disciplinary power."--Project Muse.