LEADER 03073nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910816091503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4094-0 010 $a0-8232-2698-0 010 $a1-4294-7916-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475228 035 $a(MH)010245826-X 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035326 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239434 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239434 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197178 035 $a(OCoLC)923763336 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475228 100 $a20061023d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVoluptuous philosophy $eliterary materialism in the French Enlightenment /$fNatania Meeker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 310 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a0-8232-2696-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Voluptuous Figures: Lucretian Materialism in Eighteenth-Century France -- Chapter 2. Reading for Pleasure in the French Enlightenment: The Self-Possessed Reader and the Decline of Voluptas -- Chapter 3. ''Flowers Strewn on the Way to Volupte'': La Mettrie and the Tropic Body of the Epicurean Philosopher -- Chapter 4. ''I Resist It No Longer'': Therese philosophe and the Compulsions of Enlightened Literary Materialism -- Chapter 5. Dynamism and Disinterest: The Materialist Reader and Diderot's Dream -- Chapter 6. ''A Fallacious and Always Perilous Metaphysic'': The Sadean Critique of Sentiment and the Neo-Lucretian Novel -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 8 $aIn 18th-century France, matter itself - in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies - became a privileged object of study. This book defines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure are consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates on the nature of material substance. 606 $aRepresentation (Philosophy) 606 $aMaterialism 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aEnlightenment$zFrance 615 0$aRepresentation (Philosophy) 615 0$aMaterialism. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a146/.3094409033 700 $aMeeker$b Natania$01143014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816091503321 996 $aVoluptuous philosophy$93974242 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress