[PDF.74hh] The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

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 | #52555 in Books |  W W Norton Company |  2017-02-07 |  2017-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.60 x.90 x5.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

 | W W Norton Company

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Why Can't We Lick Museum Exhibits Anymore?|By EOD|As a former student of history I was so SO pleased with this book - my concentrations were never in French history or the Enlightenment but now, how I wish they were! Exploring the history and popular thinking on every one of the senses, reading about how people could trust more their sense of touch or smell over eyesight, for e| |“Carolyn Purnell’s insightful survey of the ways Enlightenment thinkers made sense of their world offers exciting new perspectives on how we see, smell, hear, taste, and touch our own. As entertaining as it enlightening, The Sensational Past

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch―as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.

Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.

As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history....

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses   |  Carolyn Purnell. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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