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The Enlightenment of sympathy [electronic resource] : reflective sentimentalism in the eighteenth century and today / by Michael L. Frazer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9780199866687 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.01 22
LOC classification:
  • JC171
Online resources: 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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