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Voluptuous philosophy : literary materialism in the French Enlightenment /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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-century debates on the nature of material substance. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 311 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823246571 0823246574 9780823240944 0823240940 9781429479165 1429479167 0823226980 9780823226986 |