Discourse of Sensibility

The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Finally, it illustrates the ‘centrifugal forces’ at play within the discourse, and the anxiety which often accompanied them.At the centre of eighteenth-century thought was a very particular object: the body of sensibility, the Enlightenment’s knowing body.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-12-18
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt486 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in History and Philosophy of Science
Antal sidor215
Upplaga2013
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319027012

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Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Contributors.- 1. The Discourse of Sensibilité: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment; Henry Martyn Lloyd.- 2. Richard Steele and the Rise of Sentiment’s Empire; Bridget Orr.- 3. Rochester’s Libertine Poetry as Philosophical Education; Brandon Chua and Justin Clemens.- 4. Emotional Sensations and the Moral Imagination in Malebranche; Jordan Taylor.- 5. Feeling Better: Moral Sense and Sensibility in Enlightenment Thought; Alexander Cook.- 6. Physician, Heal Thyself! Emotions and the Health of the Learned in Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1727–1797) and Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1726–1801); Yasmin Haskell.- 7. Penseurs profonds: Sensibility and the Knowledge-Seeker in Eighteenth-Century France; Anne C. Vila.- 8. Sensibility as Vital Force or as Property of Matter in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Debates; Charles T. Wolfe.- 9. Sensibilité, Embodied Epistemology, and the French Enlightenment; Henry Martyn Lloyd.- 10. Sensibility in Ruins: Imagined Realities, Perception Machines, and the Problem of Experience in Modernity.- Peter Otto.