The sentimental novel postulates a world of psychic affection, where moral displays and emotional outpourings exert a directly causal force
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This is the world of the Late-Enlightenment, of Post-Rationalism: The crisis of Sentimentality as it grew out of Richardson
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In a similar way we our living through the 'Post-Modernism' crisis of Sentimentality, of the collapse of mitigating objectivity
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This collapse gives rise to Moral Affectation, as the borders of individual minds are no longer felt to be separated by a medium of reality
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The culture today of indignation and outrage is one of moral posturing and symbolic performance, of sentimental causality
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The only stance one can assume against this is a Critical one, of skepticism and transgression meant to expose absurdity of solipsism
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It's why I always say Frankfurt types come off as reactionaries, specifically Adorno and Baudrillard.
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