1st Edition
Sensibility in the Early Modern Era From living machines to affective morality
Introduction Anik Waldow
1. Self and Sensibility: From Locke to Condillac and Rousseau Udo Thiel
2. The Camera Obscura and the Nature of the Soul: On a Tension between the Mechanics of Sensation and the Metaphysics of the Soul Michael J. Olson
3. Striving Machinery: The Romantic Origins of a Historical Science of Life Jessica Riskin
4. Sensibility and Organic Unity: Kant, Goethe, and the Plasticity of Cognition Dalia Nassar
5. "Je n’ai jamais vu une sensibilité comme la tienne, jamais une tête si délicieuse!": Rousseau, Sade, and Embodied Epistemology Henry Martyn Lloyd
6. The Artifice of Human Nature: Rousseau and Herder Anik Waldow
7. Seduced by System: Edmund Burke’s Aesthetic Embrace of Adam Smith’s Philosophy Michael L. Frazer
Biography
Anik Waldow is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, Australia. She mainly works in early modern philosophy, and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of Humean sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity, scepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of the book David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and the co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought (2013).
