Chapters in this book

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