Expression and Sensibility

This chapter studies the novels of sensibility in the 1780s. The philosophy of John Locke, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson had i...

Fantasia and sensibility are not like other topics. Composed and improvised in all shapes and sizes, fantasias are not reducible to a single type of material. The fantasia was a ho...

This chapter describes Cohen’s writings on philosophy in the 1880s, specifically his work on epistemology and aesthetics. It analyzes Cohen’s Das Princip der Unendliche Methode whe...

A distinctive feature of Herder’s attempt to develop an anthropology is the crucial role played by aesthetics. Anthropology is a naturalized form of understanding human motivations...

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education – the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character ...

Abstract Jerome McGann's exciting new work represents the most significant intervention in Romantic studies since his own The Romantic Ideology. It takes as its prim...

How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of spe...

The key findings on press freedom derived from the most recent update to the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices data are as follows: During the period 1975–2017, the world ha...