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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldow, Anik, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Human body (Philosophy).

Experience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages)

Other Title:

Early modern accounts of the human place in nature

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

By investigating conceptions of experience from Descartes to Kant, this text shows that one of the central questions of the early-modern period was how humans can instantiate in their actions the principles of rational moral agency, while at the same time responding with their bodies to the causal play of nature. Through the analysis of this question, the work draws attention to the bodily underpinnings of the ability to experience thoughts and feelings. It thus challenges overly subjectivist interpretations that concentrate on the inner realm of the experiencing mind and because of this fail to account for the worldly dimension of being experientially responsive to the affections of the body.

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:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-008613-0

0-19-008614-9

0-19-008612-2