The evolution of sympathy in the long eighteenth century

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The work The evolution of sympathy in the long eighteenth century represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The evolution of sympathy in the long eighteenth century

Statement of responsibility

by Jonathan Lamb

Title variation

Evolution of sympathy in the long 18th century

Creator

• Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
• Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-

Subject

• Social ethics -- History -- 18th century
• Sympathy -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

"This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the 18th and early 19th centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre and torture. Sympathy ... 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 history of sympathy seems to involve a dialectic to 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."--Page 4 of cover

Member of

• The Enlightenment world, 12

Cataloging source

UKM

Index

index present

LC call number

BF575.S9

LC item number

L36 2009

Literary form

non fiction