Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment /
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emoti...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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| Summary: | Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Fr. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226720852 0226720853 0226720780 9780226720784 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |