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7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
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Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
- 1. Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics 21
- 2. Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England 47
- 3. Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance 72
- 4. Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvages 110
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Part Two: Materialisms
- 5. Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion 139
- 6. The Persistence of Clarissa 170
- 7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary 202
- 8. Diderot’s Brain 230
- Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees 254
- Contributors 279
- Index 281
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
-
Part One: Pre-Reflective Experience
- 1. Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics 21
- 2. Presence of Mind: An Ecology of Perception in Eighteenth-Century England 47
- 3. Reading Locke after Shaftesbury: Feeling Our Way Towards a Postsecular Genealogy of Religious Tolerance 72
- 4. Rethinking Superstition: Pagan Ritual in Lafitau’s Moeurs des sauvages 110
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Part Two: Materialisms
- 5. Defoe on Spiritual Communication, Action at a Distance, and the Mind in Motion 139
- 6. The Persistence of Clarissa 170
- 7. The Early Modern Embodied Mind and the Entomological Imaginary 202
- 8. Diderot’s Brain 230
- Conclusion: Can Aesthetics Overcome Instrumental Reason? The Need for Judgment in Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees 254
- Contributors 279
- Index 281