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
The Scotch Metaphysics - A Century of Enlightenment in Scotland
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