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In the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a 'sentimental empiricism' is the ideology which brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics.

Science in the Age of Sensibility

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 12/15/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226720784, 978-0226720784
      ISBN10: 0226720780

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      Book Synopsis
      In the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a 'sentimental empiricism' is the ideology which brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics.

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