The Importance of Sensationalism and Sympathy in the Enlightenment

Michael Wolraich: This book grew out of your work on sentimentalism and sympathy. What's the reaction o that you're you're facing from your academic colleagues? Is it, ohya, that's michael. He talks about all this simpathy ampathy stuff. Or or is there a very strong strand of scholarship to day and back 15, 20 years where people have recognized yet this is a part of the enlightenment we really should be paying a little bit more attention to?" "The contemporary academic world is so divided into different disciplinary silos that making these points doesn't easily fit into any one of them," he says.