Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Literature & Philosophy ii
3. Contents v
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. A Note on the Selection and Translation of Texts ix
6. List of Abbreviations xi
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: The Eighteenth-Century French History of an Idea
9. 1 Condillac and the Meaning of Experience 13
10. 2 Bonnet's Mind-Body Continuum in the Economy of Our Being 61
11. 3 Helvetius's Seminal Concept of Physical Sensibility 83
12. Part II: Aesthetics
13. 4 The Sensationist Aesthetics of the French Enlightenment 105
14. 5 An Exemplary yet Divergent Text: Graffigny's Lettres d'une Phvienne 125
15. 6 The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade 147
16. Part III: The Politics of Sensationism
17. 7 Cultivating Talent and Virtue 173
18. 8 Materialism's Extension of Sensationist Principles 197
19. 9 The Adoption and Critique of Sensationism by the Ideologues 225
20. Conclusion 245
21. Bibliography 251
22. Index 267