The Discourse of Sensibility: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment

by Henry Martyn Lloyd (Editor)

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 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 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 Imagined Realities, Perception Machines, and the Problem of Experience in Modernity.- Peter Otto.

228 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2013