Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-56951-5 (ISBN)
“[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas…Provides a commendable model for those interested in the way ‘true’ and ‘false’ ideas interact and broadly influence behavior.” —Science
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.
Robert Darnton is the author of numerous award-winning books on French cultural history, including The Revolutionary Temper. A MacArthur Fellow, chevalier in the Légion d’honneur, and winner of the National Humanities Medal and the National Book Critics Circle Award, he is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1986 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 halftones |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 295 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
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| ISBN-10 | 0-674-56951-2 / 0674569512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-56951-5 / 9780674569515 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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