id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ca-3211	Mazzarella, William	Sense out of Sense: Notes on the Affect/Ethics Impasse	2017		.htm	text/html	3725	215	55	One useful way to begin grappling with these genealogies is to revisit that moment in the mid-eighteenth century when moral philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith were trying to make sense of the place of affect in a then nascent mass-mediated society.1 The human capacity to be empathetically affected—Hume and Smith called it “sympathy”—appeared to them as a kind of pharmakon of modern citizenship: at once an obstacle to and a condition of possibility for ethics in a society of strangers. Marshall, David 1984 “Adam Smith and the Theatricality of Moral Sentiments.”	cache/ca-3211.htm	txt/ca-3211.txt