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Suffering Scholars : Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intellectual History of the Modern Age SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812294804
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suffering ScholarsDDC classification:
  • 305.552094409033
LOC classification:
  • DC33.4 .V49 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.
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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.

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-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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