01187nam a22001457a 4500 517382 517382 210712b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Camp, Pannill 26576 The theatre of moral sentiments: Neoclassical dramaturgy and adam Smith’s impartial spectator Journal of The History of Ideas 81(4), Oct, 2020: 555-576 The oft-cited theatricality of Adam Smith’s impartial spectator is contentious and rests on a generalized notion of theatre. This essay argues both that Smith, like his predecessors in sentimental moral philosophy, thought of spectatorship theatrically and that Smith’s spectatorship framework is rooted in French neoclassical dramaturgy. Smith’s formulation of sympathy in the Theory of Moral Sentiments bolsters this view, as does the correspondence between Smith’s definition of impartiality and the neoclassical formal isolation of spectators from the interests of protagonists. These facets of spectatorship are the basis of an impersonal mode that prevails in Smith’s social theory of morals. – Reproduced Journal of The History of Ideas PHILOSOPHY AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391448 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-12 81(4), Oct, 2020: 555-576 AR124721 2021-07-12 AR