Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

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Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Darnton, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Mesmerism > France.
Enlightenment > France.
Enlightenment.
Hypnosis > history
Mesmérisme > France.
Siècle des Lumières.
Siècle des Lumières > France.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
PSYCHOLOGY > Hypnotism.
SELF-HELP > Self-Hypnosis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Mesmerism
Mesmerisme.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Intellectual life.
France > Vie intellectuelle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science
  • 2. The Mesmerist Movement
  • 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism
  • 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory
  • 5. From Mesmer to Hugo
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Appendix 1. Mesmerâ€?s Propositions
  • Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris
  • Appendix 3. The Société de lâ€?Harmonie Universelle
  • Appendix 4. Bergasseâ€?s Lectures on Mesmerism
  • Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Sociétés de lâ€?Harmonie
  • Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View

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