Voluptuous philosophy : literary materialism in the French Enlightenment / / Natania Meeker

• Autore: Meeker Natania
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 310 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 146/.3094409033
• Soggetto topico: Representation (Philosophy); Materialism; Literature - History and criticism; Literature - Philosophy; Enlightenment - France
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Voluptuous philosophy
• ISBN: 0-8232-4094-0; 0-8232-2698-0; 1-4294-7916-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816091503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II