Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment

Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment

by JessicaRiskin (Author)

Synopsis

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.

$38.17

Quantity

20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 345
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 13 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 0226720799
ISBN 13: 9780226720791