"As histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general

"As histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general

"Smith's history of the sensate is destined to precipitate a revolution in our understanding of the sensibilities that underpinned the mentalities of past epoch

In the first English language translation of this classic late 20th-century text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insight

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture