The cambridge companion to Jung

✍ Scribed by Eugene Taylor

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199921)35:2<194::aid-jhbs14>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

how the word "sensibility" became what Clifford Geertz calls a "buzz word" that pervaded the thought of the late eighteenth century in ways not prompted by Enlightenment thought? Like passion in the seventeenth century, sensibility as a creative stimulus prompted writers, painters, and composers to explore the potential of human experience not only beyond the usually established social norms, but beyond the previously imagined potential of humanity. In fact, Corneille and Racine had already created such super-humans on the stage. Why did it take natural philosophers and novelists so long?