%0 Book
%A Michael E. Winston
%D 2005
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T From Perfectibility to Perversion
%B Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100358
%X 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.
%K Frankreich, Humanethologie, Geschichte 1700-1800, Medicine, Philosophy, Pornography /France, Eighteenth-Century, Soziokultureller Wandel, Literature France
%G English