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The social psychology of science; The trouble with science

โœ Scribed by Peter Slezak

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
205 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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โœฆ 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?

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