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  • The center for the study of 18th-century studies at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway, has published the invited paper Professor of French John C. O’Neal gave in December of 2008.

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  • Professor of French John C. O'Neal is the author of Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France. The book deals with the way in which the cultural changes of the French Enlightenment derived from a significant shift in the fundamental concepts of knowledge and experience. The topics covered in the book include aesthetics, historiography, metaphysics, anthropology, language and literature, and medicine.

  • Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory.

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