Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture : : Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680–1750 / / Christoph Henke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Henke, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 46
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the disc...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• 1. The Discourse of Common Sense
• 2. The Ethics of Common Sense
• 3. The Transgressions of Common Sense
• 4. The Politics of Common Sense
• 5. The Other of Common Sense
• 6. The Afterlife of Common Sense
• Bibliography
• Author and Title Index
• Subject Index