Fiction and the frontiers of knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
By: edited by Alexis Tadié and Richard Scholar
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.; Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781409408659; 9781409408666
Subjects: Philosophy; Literature; Politics and literature; Fictions (Law); History and criticism; Fiction; Literature and science; European literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadié; title: Poetic fiction and natural philosophy in humanist Italy: Fracostoro's use of myth in Syphilis / Isabelle Pantin; title: Si faut-il voir si cette belle philosophie: the language of fiction in Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal / Wes Williams; title: Fictions across disciplines in seventeenth-century France / Isabelle Moreau; title: Elements of fiction in Hobbes's system of philosophy / Luc Foisneau; title: The making of the modern philosopher: fictions of philosophical identity in Locke and Hume / Robert Mankin; title: Philosophy, ethics, and the work of fiction: Diderot's answer to Molyneux's question / Kate E. Tunstall; title: The Terror as a legal fiction / Anne Simonin.