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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37902405 Title: The age of reasons : quixotism, sentimentalism, and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain Author: Wendy Motooka Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0415179416 9780415179416 OCLC:37902405

  
  

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The age of reasons : quixotism, sentimentalism, and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain

Author:	Wendy Motooka
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:	Routledge studies in social and political thought, 12.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The Age of Reasons reads Don Quixote as a parodic example of eighteenth-century "reason." Reason was supposed to be universally compelling, yet it was also thought to be empirically derived. Quixotic figures satirize these assumptions by appearing to be utterly insane, while reproducing the conditions of universal rationality: they staunchly believe that reason is universal, that it can be confirmed by experience, and that they themselves are rational. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicize 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. The Age of Reasons raises our understanding of eighteenth-century British culture and its relation to the "rational" culture of economics that is growing ever more pervasive today.  Read more...
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Subjects	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616. -- Don Quixote. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616 -- Influence. Smith, Adam, -- 1723-1790. View all subjects
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