Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France
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Orest Ranum
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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how the word "sensibility" became what Clifford Geertz calls a "buzz word" that pervaded the thought of the late eighteenth century in ways not prompted by Enlightenment thought? Like passion in the seventeenth century, sensibility as a creative stimulus prompted writers, painters, and composers to