{"product_id":"limits-of-optimism-thomas-jeffersons-dualistic-enlightenment-9780813931449","title":"Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maurizio Valsania\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Optimism\u003c\/i\u003e works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson's allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality. Maurizio Valsania shows that Jefferson's multifaceted character and personality are to a large extent the logical outcome of an anti-metaphysical, enlightened, and humility-oriented approach to reality. That Jefferson's mind and priorities changed over time and in response to changing circumstances indicates neither incoherence, hypocrisy, nor pathology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValsania's reading of Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and negativity helps to make sense of the many paradoxes typically associated with that eighteenth-century thinker. At the same time, it provides a corrective to the common though erroneous equation of Enlightenment thinking with rationalism and shallow optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867576914071,"sku":"9780813931449","price":4730.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813931449.webp?v=1769986293","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/limits-of-optimism-thomas-jeffersons-dualistic-enlightenment-9780813931449","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}