Literature and Philosophy. The Authority of Experience : : Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment / / John C. O'Neal.
Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as ";the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France."; The first major general study in English of eighteen...
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| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature and Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Literature & Philosophy
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Selection and Translation of Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: The Eighteenth-Century French History of an Idea
- 1 Condillac and the Meaning of Experience
- 2 Bonnet's Mind-Body Continuum in the Economy of Our Being
- 3 Helvetius's Seminal Concept of Physical Sensibility
- Part II: Aesthetics
- 4 The Sensationist Aesthetics of the French Enlightenment
- 5 An Exemplary yet Divergent Text: Graffigny's Lettres d'une Phvienne
- 6 The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade
- Part III: The Politics of Sensationism
- 7 Cultivating Talent and Virtue
- 8 Materialism's Extension of Sensationist Principles
- 9 The Adoption and Critique of Sensationism by the Ideologues
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index