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Autore |
Riskin Jessica |
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Titolo |
Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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9786612932885 |
9781282932883 |
1282932888 |
9780226720852 |
0226720853 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science - France - History - 18th century |
Enlightenment - France |
Sensitivity (Personality trait) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction: Sensibility and Enlightenment Science -- Chapter Two. The Blind and the Mathematically Inclined -- Chapter Three. Poor Richard's Leyden Jar -- Chapter Four. From Electricity to Economy -- Chapter Five. The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod -- Chapter Six. The Mesmerism Investigation and the Crisis of Sensibilist Science -- Chapter Seven. Languages of Science and Revolution -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Sentimental Empiricists -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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