Name: Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France von Robert Darnton
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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France Robert Darnton

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France Bewertungen

A fascinating study of the effects that the theories of the notorious Viennese physician, Franz Mesmer, had upon social and political thinkers during the two decades preceding the French Revolution. This book is a skillful exploration of the various psychological factors that made mesmerism a widely accepted attitude [The book] will interest literary scholars as well as historians since mesmerism is examined as a phenomenon that bequeathed an attitude that found its expression in the writings of the preromantics and the romantics. * Virginia Quarterly Review *
This is an excellent book and one of singular interest both to the historian of science and to the French historian. * Isis *
[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas. Based on a thorough study of manuscripts, pamphlets, and journals, learned in its broad setting and persuasive in its internal logic, supported by richly relevant quotations and reproductions of contemporary engravings, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France provides a commendable model for those interested in the way true and false ideas interact and broadly influence behavior. * Science *

Über Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Mesmerism and Popular Science 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory 5. From Mesmer to Hugo 6. Conclusion Bibliographical Note Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris Appendix 3. The Societe de l'Harmonie Universelle Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de l'Harmonie Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text Index

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GOR013600535

ISBN 13

9780674569515

ISBN 10

0674569512

Titel

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France Robert Darnton

Autor

Robert Darnton

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Gebraucht - Wie Neu

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Broschiert

Verlag

Harvard University Press

Datum

1968-01-01

Anzahl der Seiten

232

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