Experience embodied : early modern accounts of the human place in nature / Anik Waldow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldow, Anik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Human body (Philosophy).

Experience.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes's conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. Waldow defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and feeling but also foregrounded the essentially embodied dimension of our lives as humans. By taking this approach, Waldow departs from the traditional epistemological route dominant in treatments of early-modern conceptions of experience. She makes the case that reflections on experience took center stage in a debate that was moral in nature, because it raised questions about the developmental potential of human beings and their capacity to instantiate the principles of self-determined agency in their lives.

Contents:

Part I: The moral importance of experience

Experience and Cartesian Agency

Locke's Experiential Persons

Part II: On the continuity between sensibility and reason

Moral reflection as perception: a Humean account

Manipulated sensibilities: Rousseau on human nature

Affect and imagination in processes of cognition: Herder

Part III: How to study the human being? Philosophy and the empirical method

Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant and Herder

Diversifying method: Kant's Janus-faced conception of the human being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.

ISBN:

9780190086114

0190086114

OCLC:

1110450882

Publisher Number:

99984130517