The Discourse of Sensibility The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lloyd, Henry Martyn. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 35
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; History of Medicine.
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This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter into...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Sentiment́Ơ"s Empire; Bridget Orr
• 3. RochesteŕƠ"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 (1727́Ơ1797) and Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1726́Ơ1801); 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.