Before Imagination : Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
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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French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism. French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism. French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Imagination in literature. Philosophy, French -- 16th century. Philosophy, French -- 17th century. Philosophy, French -- 18th century.