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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xii, 338pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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…
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Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment Tapa blanda - 2002 - 1st Edición
de Jessica Riskin
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This book is about the sentimental youth of scientific empiricism, and about a time and place in which its dramas of self-definition were center stage: eighteenth-century France.
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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 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.Detalles
- Título Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
- Autor Jessica Riskin
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 345
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, CHICAGO, IL
- Fecha de publicación 2002-12-15
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226720791 / 0226720799
- Peso 1.05 libras (0.48 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.52 x 6.56 x 0.8 pulgadas (21.64 x 16.66 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Enlightenment - France, Sensitivity (Personality trait)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002005793
- Dewey Decimal Code 509.440
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