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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- MIND, BODY, MOTION, MATTER
- Introduction
- Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
- 1. Hogarth's Practical Aesthetics
- 2. Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England
- 3. Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance
- 4. Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages
- Part Two: Materialisms
- 5. Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion
- 6. The Persistence of Clarissa
- 7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary
- 8. Diderot's Brain
- Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
- Contributors
- Index