Title: From Perfectibility To Perversion: Meliorism In Eighteenth-century France (The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies)
Description: "From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France traces the evolution of human perfectibility discourse during the second half of the eighteenth century and the early post-Revolutionary era in France. Examining key articulations of Enlightenment meliorism as it shifts between open-ended models of human perfectibility and "fixist" conceptions of the human body, this book will appeal to a range of specialists because it draws on a variety of primary sources, from Buffon and Rousseau to important medical theorists of the pre- and post-Revolutionary period, and juxtaposes seemingly disparate domains of inquiry in informative and provocative fashion."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Philosophy, french, Medicine, france, Pornography, French literature, History and criticism, French Philosophy, Medicine, History