Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts
by
Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion...