From Perfectibility to Perversion
Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France
©2005
Monographs
XII,
192 Pages
Series:
The Age of Revolution and Romanticism, Volume 34
Summary
From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France traces the evolution of human perfectibility discourse during the second half of the eighteenth century and the early post-Revolutionary era in France. Examining key articulations of Enlightenment meliorism as it shifts between open-ended models of human perfectibility and «fixist» conceptions of the human body, this book will appeal to a range of specialists because it draws on a variety of primary sources, from Buffon and Rousseau to important medical theorists of the pre- and post-Revolutionary period, and juxtaposes seemingly disparate domains of inquiry in informative and provocative fashion.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 192
- Publication Year
- 2005
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820474953
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Frankreich Humanethologie Geschichte 1700-1800 Medicine Philosophy Pornography /France Eighteenth-Century Soziokultureller Wandel Literature France
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XII, 192 pp.
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