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Before imagination : embodied thought from Montaigne to Rousseau /

"This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early modern Europe, and particularly in early modern France, before the Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination (including hostility to imagination) th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lyons, John D., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Cal. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The return of stoic imagination
  • 2. Self-cultivation and religious meditation
  • 3. Picturing ourselves in the world : Pascal's Pensées
  • 4. The imagination of loss
  • 5. From imagination to significance : the novel from Scudéry to Lafayette
  • 6. How the ancients modernized imagination.