Enlightened Sentiments : : Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility / / Hina Nazar.

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• VerfasserIn: Nazar, Hina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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, the author 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reconstructing Sentimentalism -- 2. Sentimentalism and the Discourses of Freedom: The Aesthetic Analogy from Hume to Arendt -- 3. Judging Clarissa’s Heart -- 4. A Sentimental Education: Rousseau to Godwin -- 5. Judgment, Propriety, and the Critique of Sensibility: The “Sentimental” Jane Austen -- Notes -- Index