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DOI: 10.2307/750594
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Pygmalion and the Philosophes: The Animated Statue in Eighteenth-Century France

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“…In addition to the child, Condillac used the thought experiment of the Pygmalion statue to emphasize his developmental argument about cognition. Consequently, he assigned hierarchical status to the five senses in successive order as follows: putting the sense of smell first and the sense of touch last (Carr 1960). This processual understanding of childhood that initially produces the phenomenon of temporalization makes Condillac's thinking interesting for Rousseau.…”
Section: The Call For Vividness and (Verbal) Imagerymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition to the child, Condillac used the thought experiment of the Pygmalion statue to emphasize his developmental argument about cognition. Consequently, he assigned hierarchical status to the five senses in successive order as follows: putting the sense of smell first and the sense of touch last (Carr 1960). This processual understanding of childhood that initially produces the phenomenon of temporalization makes Condillac's thinking interesting for Rousseau.…”
Section: The Call For Vividness and (Verbal) Imagerymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dans ses travaux consacrés à l'évolution du mythe de Pygmalion, John l. carr, dès les années 1960, avait ouvert la voie à de nouvelles réflexions 1 . limitée au xviii e siècle, son étude a tracé des voies d'approche 2 : en interrogeant les relations qu'entretient le créateur à son oeuvre par la médiation du mythe, l'historien comprend les phénomènes qui sous-tendent la production artistique.…”
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