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Introduction  1. Self and Sensibility: From Locke to Condillac and Rousseau  2. The Camera Obscura and the Nature of the Soul: On a Tension between the Mechanics of Sensation and the Metaphysics of the Soul  3. Striving Machinery: The Romantic Origins of a Historical Science of Life  4. Sensibility and Organic Unity: Kant, Goethe, and the Plasticity of Cognition  5. "Je n’ai jamais vu une sensibilité comme la tienne, jamais une tête si délicieuse!": Rousseau, Sade, and Embodied Epistemology  6. The Artifice of Human Nature: Rousseau and Herder  7. Seduced by System: Edmund Burke’s Aesthetic Embrace of Adam Smith’s Philosophy