The Discourse of Sensibility The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lloyd, Henry Martyn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• 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.

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...