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The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: The Enlightenment World
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This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the
phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the
market, global exploration, theatre and torture. Sympathy, the
sudden and spontaneous entry of one person s feelings into those of
another, made it possible for people to share sentiments so vividly
that neither reason nor self-interest could limit the degree to
which individuals might care for others, or act involuntarily on
their behalf. The progress of sympathy is intertwined with the
period of global exploration evidenced by Cook s voyages and the
rise of the sentimental novel before being met by growing suspicion
in the works of radicals such as Wollstonecraft and Godwin. The
history of sympathy seems to involve a dialectic of immediacy and
artifice in which the knowledge of what it is like to be someone
else is alternately the product of involuntary passion and of
conscious manipulation. The question of social virtue, where it
comes from, how it is aroused and in what direction it tends is
perpetually being interrogated with no definite answer ever
emerging.
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