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Author:

Vila, Anne C., 1961- author.

Title:

Suffering scholars : pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

267 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Intellectuals--History--France--History--18th century.
Intellectuals--History--France--History--19th century.
Intellectuals--France--History--18th century.
Intellectuals--France--History--19th century.
Enlightenment--France.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-252) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Medicine and the cult of the thinker, 1750-89 -- The ardor for study : inwardness and the zealous cerebralist -- Passions and the Philosophe -- Corporality and the life of the mind in Voltaire and Diderot -- Melancholy, genius, and intellectual identity : the cases of Rousseau and Stae˜l -- Refashioning intellectual pathologies in the wake of the revolution -- Epilogue. Not so singular, after all?

Series:

Intellectual history of the Modern age

ISBN:

0812249925
9780812249927

OCLC:

(OCoLC)999309192

LCCN:

2017034937

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)