TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael E. Winston
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - From Perfectibility to Perversion
T2  - Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100358
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -