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 an interdisciplinary space and so to invite the plurality of methodological approaches which this collection exemplifies. The chapters collected here draw together the histories of literature and aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, moral theory, medicine, and cultural history. Together,...
This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely thro...
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.
Finally, it illustrates the `centrifugal forces' at play within the discourse, and the anxiety which often accompanied them.At the centre of eighteent...
This work is of interest to: `Continental' Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.
This work is of interest to: `Continental' Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies...
