Voluptuous philosophy : literary materialism in the French Enlightenment /

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In 18th-century France, matter itself - in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies - became a privileged object of study. This book defines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure are consistently located at the very heart of 18th-cent...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meeker, Natania
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Representation (Philosophy)
Materialism.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Enlightenment > France.
Représentation (Philosophie)
Matérialisme.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
Siècle des Lumières > France.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Enlightenment.
Literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Voluptuous Figures: Lucretian Materialism in Eighteenth-Century France
  • Reading for Pleasure in the French Enlightenment: the Self-possessed Reader and the Decline of Voluptas
  • "Flowers Strewn on the Way to Volupté": La Mettrie and the Tropic Body of the Epicurean Philosopher
  • "I Resist It No Longer": Thérèse Philosophe and the Compulsions of Enlightened Literary Materialism
  • Dynamism and Disinterest: the Materialist Reader and Diderot's Dream
  • "A Fallacious and Always Perilous Metaphysic": The Sadean Critique of Sentiment and the Neo-lucretian Novel.

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