The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment

by John C. O'Neal

Book Overview

Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027797
• ISBN13: 9780271027791
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"