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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Discourse of Sensibility
    sub title: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment
  name:
    name part: Lloyd, Henry Martyn.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 215 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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, they contribute to four major themes: First, the collection reconstructs various modes by which the sympathetic subject was construed or scripted, including through the theatre, poetry, literature, and medical and philosophical treaties. It secondly draws out those techniques of affective pedagogy which were implied by the medicalisation of the knowing body, and thirdly highlights the manner in which the body of sensibility was constructed as simultaneously particular and universal. 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. The persona of the knowledge-seeker was constructed by drawing together mind and matter, thought and feeling. And so where the Enlightenment thinker is generally associated with reason, truth-telling, and social and political reform, the Enlightenment is also known for its valorisation of emotion. During the period, intellectual pursuits were envisioned as having a distinctly embodied and emotional aspect. The body of ‘sensibility’ encompassed these apparently disparate strands and was associated with terms including ‘sentimental’, ‘sentiment’, ‘sense’, ‘sensation’, and ‘sympathy’.
  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 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.
  note: edited by Henry Martyn Lloyd.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 35
  identifier: 9783319027029
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02702-9
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    record creation date: 131207
    record change date: 20151204180813.0
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