The Age of Minerva: Cognitive discontinuities in eighteenth-century thought

The Age of Minerva: Cognitive discontinuities in eighteenth-century thought
Author: Paul Ilie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The second volume of a trilogy about aberrant reason and the cognitive fault lines that expose the discontinuities underlying empirical reality, fault lines that are embedded in the discourses of literature, art, social analysis, biology, and philosophy.

The Age of Minerva, Volume 2

The Age of Minerva, Volume 2
Author: Paul Ilie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512803332

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Age of Minerva, Volume 1

The Age of Minerva, Volume 1
Author: Paul Ilie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512803324

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Rêve Et Les Lumières

Rêve Et Les Lumières
Author: Bernard Dieterle
Publisher: Honoré Champion
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: Dreams
ISBN:

Analyse la problématique du rêve au siècle des lumières : la première partie s'interroge sur les connaissances transmises par les encyclopédistes, les philosophes, les théologiens, les médecins et les anthropologues, et propose deux études consacrées à Swedenborg et Herder ; une seconde partie étudie le rêve dans les divers genres littéraires et s'attarde sur le rêve érotique de Goethe.

Science in the Age of Sensibility

Science in the Age of Sensibility
Author: Jessica Riskin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226720853

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 Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Author: I. Csengei
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230359175

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.

Sublime Disorder

Sublime Disorder
Author: Andrew Curran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This work places Diderot's fascination with anatomical anomalies or monsters within the context of the history of ideas, philosophy, and science. By chronicling the ideological component of the philosophe's presentation of monstrosity from the Lettre sur les aveugles to Le Neveu de Rameau, this book reveals Diderot's 'random and accidental' monsters to be, ironically, the most teleological of all beings: created and staged, as it were, for a particular textual world where materialist dogma is as important as disinterested anatomical study.

Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory

Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory
Author: Babette E. Babich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Some are expected to protest the conjoining of the two German philosophers, arguing that Friedrich Nietzsche's 19th-century vision of politics and critical rationality seems radically at odds with the philosophical contributions of J gen Haberman, especially his most recent work. Undaunted, scholars of philosophy and political science in Europe and