Introduction : ethics, literature, and the forms of encounter -- Feeling for philosophy : the limits of sentimental certainty -- Knowing before loving : Rousseau and the ethics of exposure -- Sentimental justice : Hume, Wordsworth, and the ends of...
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Introduction : ethics, literature, and the forms of encounter -- Feeling for philosophy : the limits of sentimental certainty -- Knowing before loving : Rousseau and the ethics of exposure -- Sentimental justice : Hume, Wordsworth, and the ends of sympathy -- Respecting emotion : Austen's gratitude -- Alone together : romanticism, psychoanalysis, and the interpretation of silence -- Coda : sitting with strangers
