Suffering Scholars – Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
Autor Anne C. Vilaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mar 2018
In Suffering Scholars, Anne C. Vila focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around great intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Beginning with Tissot's work, which launched a subgenre of health advice aimed specifically at scholars, she demonstrates how writers like Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mme de Stal, responded to the suffering scholar syndrome and helped to shape it. She traces the ways in which this syndrome influenced the cultural perceptions of iconic personae such as the philosophe, the solitary genius, and the learned lady. By showing how crucial the so-called suffering scholar was to debates about the mind-body relation as well as to sex and sensibility, Vila sheds light on the consequences book-learning was thought to have on both the individual body and the body politic, not only in the eighteenth century but also into the decades following the Revolution.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812249927
ISBN-10: 0812249925
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Intellectual History of the Modern Age
ISBN-10: 0812249925
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Intellectual History of the Modern Age
Cuprins
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89
Chapter 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist
Chapter 3. Passions and the Philosophe
Chapter 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot
Chapter 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël
Chapter 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution
Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?
Notes
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index
Acknowledgments
Notă biografică
Descriere
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.