TY - BOOK AU - Frazer,Michael L. TI - The Enlightenment of sympathy: reflective sentimentalism in the eighteenth century and today SN - 9780199866687 (ebook) : AV - JC171 U1 - 320.01 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political science KW - Europe KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Enlightenment KW - Sentimentalism KW - Political aspects KW - Emotions (Philosophy) KW - Ethics, Modern KW - Reason N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390667.001.0001 ER -