Mind, Body, Motion, Matter by Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
by Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway

Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2016
ISBN/ASIN: B01F2LOP02
Number of pages: 304

Description:
'Mind, Body, Motion, Matter' investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world -- mechanistic materialism and vitalism -- in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot.