Defending Privilege Seth Forman and disappointments

and disappointments

memoirist to satirist

Cornish tin mines and the eerie military buildings on Orford Ness

and pragmatic

mental capacity and accountability explore how understanding and application are equally important

Defending Privilege Seth Forman and disappointmentsAs revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of conservative authors mounted a reactionary attempt to cultivate sympathy for the privileged. In Defending Privilege,