Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives /
"Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world--mechanistic materialism and vitalism--in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl...
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
2016.
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Sommario:
- Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack
- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick
- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez
- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran
- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth
- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig
- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. Tunstall
- Diderot's Brain / Joanna Stalnaker
- Conclusion: Can aesthestics overcome instrumental reason? The need for judgement in Mandeville's Fable of the bees / Vivasvan Soni.