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Author O'Neal, John C.

Title The authority of experience : sensationist theory in the French Enlightenment / John C. O'Neal.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  146.44 O58A    Check Shelf
Description viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Literature & philosophy
Literature and philosophy.
Contents A Note on the Selection and Translation of Texts -- 1. Condillac and the Meaning of Experience -- 2. Bonnet's Mind-Body Continuum in the Economy of Our Being -- 3. Helvetius's Seminal Concept of Physical Sensibility -- 4. The Sensationist Aesthetics of the French Enlightenment -- 5. An Exemplary yet Divergent Text: Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne -- 6. The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade -- 7. Cultivating Talent and Virtue -- 8. Materialism's Extension of Sensationist Principles -- 9. The Adoption and Critique of Sensationism by the Ideologues.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [251-265) and index.
Subject Enlightenment -- France.
Empiricism.
Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0271015152 alkaline paper
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