From Perfectibility To Perversion: Meliorism In Eighteenth-century France (The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies)
Michael E. Winston · 2005
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 189
- ISBN
- 9780820474953
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