...Shameem Black This essay evaluates the contribution that sentimentality might make to cosmopolitan practices in contemporary life. In particular, it considers how the legacy of feminized sentimental fiction informs twenty-first-century rhetoric on the Internet. The essay examines how the person...

....” In Adam Smith Reviewed , edited by Peter Jones and Andrew S. Skinner. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 93 -118. Raphael , D. D. , and A. L. Macfie. 1976 . “Introduction.” The Theory of Moral Sentiments . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1 -52. Rawls , John . 1971 . A Theory...

... exploitative settler’ among their native compatriots. Despite this image having a specific colonial history, this article contends that the persistence of anti-Indian sentiments—and the ire and violence—is not simply a “legacy of colonialism” or evidence of natives’ xenophobia. It is rather a product of closed...

...figure 1. “Sentiment analysis” patenting by China and the US, based on Google Patents. ...

...Andrew Lakoff This essay situates the current discussion of vaccination politics within a broader trajectory of reflection on risk, rationality, and reflexive modernization. It argues that contemporary vaccine resistance is indicative less of antiscientific or antigovernmental sentiments than...

... or victimized suffering, Palestinian electro- dabke bands evoke both localized sentiments of national pride in refashioned cosmopolitan folklore and international political solidarity based on human similarity and the shared experience of joy. This dual message is further communicated through the centrality...

... of Moral Sentiments (TMS) is taken from the sixth edition. Smith completed his revisions on this edition shortly before his death in 1790, and it was published in the same year. First published in 1759, seventeen years before the publication...

... fluttered as soldiers depart for the front is a magic wand that may protect men in battle if the entreaties of flagwavers are powerful enough. Sentiment is the key to shamanistic flag magic. Ostentatious demonstra- tions of sentiment in displays and parades that may seem tacky or gauche...

... formation and categories, to dis- cursive relations that produce their objects, to a sentiment’s history, and not least to sexuality as a nodal point of power — these spoke to what I was historically in the midst of deciphering. Binaries had...

... the line is hard. It can't just be on the basis of whether someone is offended. You have to judge what kind of sentiment is of- fended; and also what is involved in suppression. Where blasphemy laws are widely accepted (which was almost everywhere until very recently), there is widespread agreement...

... that two countries that rejected the European constitution, France and the Netherlands, are the two countries where Islam was most publicly debated. While the negative vote was triggered to a sig- nificant degree by national values and sentiments hostile to globalization and neoliberalism, issues...

...; and that it is our innate urge to activity which makes the wheels go round, our rational selves choosing between the alternatives as best we are able, calculating where we can, but often falling back for our motive on whim or sentiment or chance...

.... In this respect, a culture of human rights is work in progress—and success is far from guaranteed. The importance of what Richard Rorty has called “sad and sentimental stories” for the formation of human rights culture in the West has been widely, and often critically, discussed ( Rorty 1993 : 133; see also...

... in their own right. Indeed, the signatories anointed and presented them- selves as members of the civil society and, as such, felt fully entitled to express the sentiments of the nation and to write them into a national agreement. All...

... or romantic poetry, this element does not necessarily provoke the classic sentiments of compassion and pity or elevated sublimation. Rather, in many instances the cathartic trigger is ambiguous. Such ambiguity is not related to the subtle ploys of narrative or image. After all, realistic depictions...

...,” by inducing them to accept the universal “obligations imposed by recognition of membership in the same species” (p. 133). It will be made by “manipulating their sentiments” (p. 127). For progress in human rights thus far “seems to owe nothing...

... borne through long years of political struggle. His com- ment was the first in a series of similar references I heard that are part of a deeply routinized sentimental discourse among the Italian Left. The reference to political passion...

...- jectivity were imagined and achieved in prominent Enlightenment responses to enthusiasm, in particular those responses associated with eighteenth-century moral sentimentalism. For moral sentimentalists like Anthony Ashley Cooper...