Zusammenfassung: "This elegant collection of essays ranges across eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, covering philosophy, science, literature and religion in the 'Age of Goethe.' A recognised authority in the field, Nisbet grapples with the major voices of the Enlightenm…
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels published over the following century redefine sympathy through narrative form-shifting perspectives or…
African choices in the revolutionary South -- The counter-revolution in Saint Domingue -- Maroons, loyalist intrigues, and ephemeral states -- Black militiamen and African rebels in Havana -- Black Seminoles: a nation besieged -- Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba -- Epilogue: f…
