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Authority of Experience Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment
by O'Neal, John C.
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- Comments: [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 284 p. : illustrations, 23 cm. <br> "Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as 'the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France.' The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, T
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- ISBN-13: 9780271015156
- ISBN: 0271015152
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory. After a general introduction to sensationism, the author develops a theory of sensationist aesthetics that not only reveals the interconnections of the period's philosophy and literature but also enhances our awareness of the forces at work in the French novel.O'Neal, John C. is the author of 'Authority of Experience Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment' with ISBN 9780271015156 and ISBN 0271015152.
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