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

"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."
"Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise 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."@en

"Age of reasons : quixotism, sentimentalism, and political economy in eighteenth century britain"
"The age of reasons quixotism, sentimentalism, and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain"@en
"The age of reasons : quixotism, sentimentalism, and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain"
"The age of reasons : quixotism, sentimentalism and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain"