Changing minds
Subtitle: the shifting perception of culture in eighteenth-century France
By: John C. O'Neal.
Series: The University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture
Publisher: University of Delaware; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Newark; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Enlightenment -- France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.
Chiefly a collection of previously published essays, articles, etc., one of which was originally published in French.
Table of contents: title: Nature's culture in Du Bos' Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture; title: Perceptual dimensions of French culture in Voltaire's historical writings; title: The evolution of the notion of experience in the writings of Bouillier and Condillac on the question of animal souls; title: The effects of climate on a nation's culture in Montesquieu's L'esprit des lois; title: Myth, language, and perception in Rousseau's Narcisse; title: Rousseau's theory of wealth and revolutionary zeal; title: Auenbrugger, Corvisart, and the perception of disease.