Sublime Science in the Late Enlightenment: Adam Walker and the Eidouranion

enOctober 12, 2011

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Jan Golinski discusses how early 19th century popular science lecturers evoked the discourse of the sublime, thereby continuing to advance Enlightenment claims about progress in human reason and culture, despite the rise of conservative Regency values.

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