Sensibility

Abstract: I. Anthropological Didactic.- Book I. On the Cognitive Powers.- On Self-Consciousness.- On Egoism.- On Voluntary Consciousness of Our Ideas.- On Observing Oneself.- On Ideas That We Have without Being Conscious of Them.- On Distinctness and Indistinctness in Consciousness of Our Ideas.- On Sensibility as Contrasted with Understanding.- Apology for Sensibility.- On Ability with Regard to the Cognitive Powers in General.- On Artificial Play with Sensory Semblance.- On Permissible Moral Semblance.- On the Five Senses.- On Inner Sense.- On the Causes that Increase or Decrease the Intensity of Our Sense Impressions.- On the Inhibition, Weakening, and Total Loss of the Sense Powers.- On the Constructive Power belonging to Sensibility According to Its Various Forms.- On the Power of Bringing the Past and the Future to Mind by Imagination.- On Involuntary Invention in a State of Health - That Is, on Dreaming.- On the Power of Using Signs.- On the Cognitive Power Insofar As It Is Based on Understanding.- On Deficiencies and Diseases of the Soul with Respect to Its Cognitive Power.- On Talents in the Cognitive Power.- Book II. The Feeling of Pleasure and Displeasure.- On Sensuous Pleasure.- A. On the Feeling for the Agreeable, or Sensuous Pleasure in the Sensation of an Object.- B. On the Feeling for the Beautiful, or Taste.- Book III. On the Appetitive Power.- On Affects in Comparison with Passion.- On the Passions.- On the Highest Physical Good.- On the Highest Moral-Physical Good.- II. Anthropological Characterization.- A. The Character of the Person.- 1. On [a Man's] Nature.- 2. On Temperament.- 3. On Character as [a Man's] Way of Thinking.- On Physiognomy.- B. On the Character of the Sexes.- C. On the Character of Nations.- D. On the Character of Races.- E. On the Character of the Species.- Description of the Character of the Human Species.- Notes.

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Abstract: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Sensibility and the Nervous System Wollstonecraft's Perspective: The Gendering of Sensibility A New Psychoperceptual System The Application of the New System: George Cheyne, 1671-1743 The Reformation of Manners Combined with Consumerism Nerve Theory in Novels Female Nerves and Sensibility's Ambiguity 2: The Reformation of Male Manners The Public Manners of Men The Campaign for the Reformation of Manners Heart Religion The Civilizing Process and British Commercial Capitalism Changed Environments and the New World of Parents and Children 3: The Question of Effeminacy Shaftesbury Mandeville Hume and Smith Henry MacKenzie Politics and Boys' Literature: Thomas Day. 4: Women and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism Home Demand Women Become Literate, Women Write Novels Women's Self-Expression in Fashion Fiction Records Women's Pleasure Seeking Ambivalence toward Women's Pursuit of Consumer Pleasures Taste 5: A Culture of Reform Antiworldview Women and Humanitarian Reform Stalking Horses: The Campaign on Behalf of Victims of Male Barbarity Sensibility's Goal: The Man of Feeling Sensibility's Method: Conversion The Cult of Sensibility Methodism and the Culture of Sensibility The Rights of Woman and the Reformation of Manners 6: Women and Individualism: Inner and Outer Struggles over Sensibility The Sentimentalizing Process Egotism and Opposition The Reality of Heroism and Romance Subversive Potentials in Women's Developing Minds: Marriage and Class Still More Subversive Potentials: Sensibility and Sex 7: Wollstonecraft and the Crisis over Sensibility in the 1790s Amazons at the Boundary Wollstonecraft, Hays, and the Conflict over Sensibility Wollstonecraft Becomes Amazon "Man Was Made to Reason, Woman to Feel": Compromise Notes Index

Abstract: Getting Lost is an experiment in and of method against the normative critical framework of much feminist methodology in order to ask: if it is what it does, in a nominalist vein, what then is feminist methodology? The answers the book puts forward include: effaced, abjected, uncertain, engaged, reflexive (perhaps to a fault), and deeply invested in a sustained ethical engagement with those we study, particularly those with less power, while troubling what Adele terms "confession, testimonial and the intrusiveness of much research." Situated as an index of more general tensions in the human sciences, I focus on how feminist methodology engages with a problematic of loss in taking fuller account of the fall into language and the loss of pure presence. The book's sensibility is toward that which shakes any assured ontology of the "real," of presence and absence, a post-critical logic of haunting and undecidables. In this, it is important to remember that my methodological musings collected in the book are grounded in Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/ AIDS,1 a study that preceded the "new" anti-retroviral treatments of the mid-1990s. Hence this was, in many senses, a study of living with dying. Not-knowing was not difficult in such a space and I felt keenly how not wanting to not know is a violence that subsumes the Other into the Same. Abstracting a philosophy of inquiry from an archive of such work set me up well to explore the enablements that might be imagined from loss.