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

• Autore: Van den Abbeele Georges
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, ©1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxx, 176 pages)
• Disciplina: 910/.01
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM; Semiotics & Theory; Philosophy, French - 16th century; Philosophy, French - 17th century; Philosophy, French - 18th century; Travel; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Travel as metaphor
• ISBN: 0-8166-8372-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828358303321
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