The aesthetic body : passion, sensibility, and corporeality in seventeenth-century France / Erec R. Koch.

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008], ©2008.

390 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-383) and index.

Physiology: corporeality and Descartes' (aesth)Ethics -- Sight: theatrical spectacle in Corneille, Nicole, and Malebranche -- Hearing: rhetoric, voice, and aurality from Mersenne's Harmonie universelle to Lamy's La rhetorique, ou l'art de parler -- Taste: corporal delectation and judgment--La mothe le vayer, Méré, and Morvan de Bellegarde -- Touch: contact and the politics of fear--Hobbes, Nicolel, and Pascal.