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100 1 Riskin, Jessica.
245 10 Science in the age of sensibility :|bthe sentimental
empiricists of the French Enlightment /|cJessica Riskin.
260 Chicago, Ill. ;|aLondon :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,
|c2002.
300 296 p. :|bill.
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520 8 In the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately
bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a
'sentimental empiricism' is the ideology which brought
together ideas and institutions, practices and politics.
|bEmpiricism 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.
650 0 Science|zFrance|xHistory|y18th century.
650 0 Enlightenment|zFrance.
650 0 Sensitivity (Personality trait)
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