The child of the senses. Education and the concept of experience in the eighteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4364585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvy Chakkalakal (0000-0002-3732-9817, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-172 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17458927.2019.1626643 |
| OpenAlex | W2954269136 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Taking the German picture-encyclopedia Picture Book for Children (1790-1830) of Friedrich J. Bertuch as a vantage point, this article presents a thick historiographical description of the concept of experience and the role of visual material in relation to the figure of the child. I am interested here in the formation of the notion of experience and specifically in the ways experience has played a key role in the debates over the concepts of vitalism, epigenesis, and experience-based (verbal) imagery in the Enlightenment. The broad call for clearness, vividness and the employment of images in the literature of the period highlights crucial negotiations of sense-based practices in education and scholarly knowledge production. Experience, sensation, perception, and observation became catchwords within anthropological and philosophical reflections on how to showcase life itself. Through a careful analysis of early biological images and image practices in Bertuch's Picture Book, I show the picture was supposed to initiate interaction. Pictures become a crucial part of communication processes and practices of bourgeois self-assurance, also with regards to racialized, sexualized and gendered subject formation
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Enlightenment · Epistemology · German · Historiography · Linguistics · Perception · Period (music · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Subject (documents · Vitalism · Historical Education and Society · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Psychology · History · Philosophy
Die Philosophie der Aufklärung
Der ganze Mensch
The Form of Becoming
The Great Chain of Being
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
Robinson der Jungere, zur angenehmen und nutzlichen Unterhaltung fur Kinder
The World in a Box
Anthropology and the German Enlightenment
Women, Gender and Enlightenment
On 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818)
Science in the Age of Sensibility
Matter, Life, and Generation
The World in a Box
From l'homme physique to l'homme moral and back
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Irritability and Sensibility
Form - A Matter of Generation
Before Boas
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
The Great Chain of Being
From Homme Machine to Homme Sensible
Theories of Perception and the Physiology of Mind in the Late Eighteenth Century
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |