Le vif de la sensation

Dizziness refers to a sensation of disturbed or impaired spatial orientation without a false or distorted sense of motion. It can be distinguished from vertigo, which is the sensat...

Under what conditions does ‘sensation’ become ‘sensational’? By the early nineteenth century murder had become the staple of the sensationalizing popular press, and grues...

Although the focus of this book is primarily on visual verbs and their relation to perception, one cannot help but wonder to what extent any of the lessons for the case of vision c...

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings o...

This chapter focuses on the abolitionist movement and the rise of physical sensation as a rhetorical theme. It interprets the term “image” in its post-nineteenth-century sense as i...

Palpitation is a symptom defined as unpleasant awareness of the heartbeat and is typically described by patients as a disagreeable sensation of pulsation or movement in the chest o...

Our bodily states can affect our susceptibility toward emotional arousal; empirical research suggests that discrete patterns of somatic upheaval can be identified, at least for som...