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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbound

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Author

Henke, Christoph;

Publisher

De Gruyter, Inc.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110394979

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-25