Suffering Scholars : Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vila, Anne C., author.

Series:

Intellectual history of the modern age.

Intellectual History of the Modern Age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Health and hygiene--France--History--18th century.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Health and hygiene--France--History--19th century.

Intellectuals--France--History--18th century.

Intellectuals--France--History--19th century.

Enlightenment--France.

Enlightenment.

France.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the ""suffering scholar"" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89; 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist; 3. Passions and the Philosophe; 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot; 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël; 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution; Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?; Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9780812294804

0812294807

OCLC:

1027476986