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Changing minds : the shifting perception of culture in eighteenth-century France
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Changing minds : the shifting perception of culture in eighteenth-century France / John C. O'Neal.
ISBN
0874137888
Published
Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 2002.
Physical Description
273 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Chiefly a collection of previously published essays, articles, etc., one of which was originally published in French.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 18, 2002
Series
The University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Nature's culture in Du Bos' Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture
Perceptual dimensions of French culture in Voltaire's historical writings
The evolution of the notion of experience in the writings of Bouillier and Condillac on the question of animal souls
The effects of climate on a nation's culture in Montesquieu's L'esprit des lois
Myth, language, and perception in Rousseau's Narcisse
Rousseau's theory of wealth and revolutionary zeal
Auenbrugger, Corvisart, and the perception of disease.
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