LEADER 03066nam 2200577 450 001 9910788181403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61149-025-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000588465 035 $a(EBL)1903398 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1903398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1903398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11025272 035 $a(OCoLC)898769306 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000588465 100 $a20100803h20112011 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment /$fJohn C. O'Neal 210 1$aNewark :$cUniversity of Delaware Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-52030-5 311 $a1-61149-024-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index. 327 $aThe subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater -- Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit -- Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot -- Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles -- Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul -- Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity -- Gender confusion -- Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry -- Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion. 330 $aDrawing largely on the etymological meaning of the word 'confusion' as the action of mixing or blending, John C. O'Neal traces the development of a progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment. This project, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and to recognize the need to embrace complexity. Eighteenth-century thinkers used the notion of confusion in a progressive way to reorganize social classes, literary forms, metaphysical substances, scientific methods, and cultural categories such as taste and gender. 606 $aEnlightenment$zFrance 606 $aPhilosophy, French$y18th century 606 $aFrench literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComplexity (Philosophy) 606 $aAmbiguity 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aPhilosophy, French 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComplexity (Philosophy) 615 0$aAmbiguity. 676 $a840.9/353 700 $aO'Neal$b John C.$01491154 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788181403321 996 $aThe progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment$93712816 997 $aUNINA