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Before Imagination : Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804767576
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before ImaginationDDC classification:
  • 840.9/384
LOC classification:
  • PQ145
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Return of Stoic Imagination -- 2 Self-Cultivation and Religious Meditation -- 3 Picturing Ourselves in the World: Pascal's Pens ´ ees -- 4 The Imagination of Loss -- 5 From Imagination to Significance: The Novel from Scud ´ ery to Lafayette -- 6 How the Ancients Modernized Imagination -- Conclusion.
Summary: A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Return of Stoic Imagination -- 2 Self-Cultivation and Religious Meditation -- 3 Picturing Ourselves in the World: Pascal's Pens ´ ees -- 4 The Imagination of Loss -- 5 From Imagination to Significance: The Novel from Scud ´ ery to Lafayette -- 6 How the Ancients Modernized Imagination -- Conclusion.

A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers.

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