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 t...

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Autor principal: McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962- (Autor, Editor)
Altres autors: Conway, Alison (Editor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.