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Suffering scholars : pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France /
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the ""suffering scholar"" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Intellectual history of the modern age.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89; 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist; 3. Passions and the Philosophe; 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot; 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël; 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution; Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?; Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.