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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828358303321

Autore

Van den Abbeele Georges

Titolo

Travel as metaphor : from Montaigne to Rousseau / / Georges van den Abbeele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, ©1992

ISBN

0-8166-8372-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 176 pages)

Disciplina

910/.01

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM

Semiotics & Theory

Philosophy, French - 16th century

Philosophy, French - 17th century

Philosophy, French - 18th century

Travel

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Economy of Travel -- Chapter 1. Equestrian Montaigne -- Circulating in Italy: Travel Journal -- Unbridled Leisure: "Of Idleness -- An Accidental Body -- or, The Paternal Limit: "Of Practice -- All Roads Lead Back to Rome: "Of Vanity -- Chapter 2. Cartesian Coordinates -- Finding One's Footing: Second Meditation -- Wanderings in Error: Discourse on Method, Meditations -- Chapter 3. Montesquieu's Grand Tour -- A View from the Top: Journey from Graz to The Hague -- The Occidental Tourist -- or, The Drift of History: The Spirit of the Laws -- Chapter 4. Pedestrian Rousseau -- Pedagogy and the Teleology of Travel: Emile -- Oedipal Returns -- The Law of Succession: Emile and  Sophie -- or, the Solitary Ones -- Walking and Writing: Confessions -- The "Fall" of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Second  Promenade -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.