Suffering scholars : pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France

auteur du texte	Vila, Anne C. (1961-....)
title	Suffering scholars : pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France
ISBN	978-0-8122-4992-7
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publisher	Philadelphia (USA) : University of Pennsylvania Press
notice_entry_object	Intellectual history of the modern age
publication_year	2018
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pages	267 p.
language(s)	anglais
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subject_matter	Histoire de la médecine Histoire intellectuelle Mouvement des Lumières
period	XVIIIe siècle (1715-1789)
character	Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Staël-Holstein, Germaine de (baronne de Staël, dite Mme de ; 1766-1817) Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, dit (1694-1778)
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note	Table des matières : Introduction ; Medicine and the cult of the thinker, 1750-89 ; The ardor for study : inwardness and the zealous cerebralist ; Passions and the Philosophe ; Corporality and the life of the mind in Voltaire and Diderot ; Melancholy, genius, and intellectual identity : the cases of Rousseau and Staël ; Refashioning intellectual pathologies in the wake of the revolution ; Epilogue. Not so singular, after all?