This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early modern Europe, particularly in early modern France, before the Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination (including hostility to imagination) through the writings of such figures as Descartes, Montaigne, François de Sales, Pascal, the Marquise de Sévigné, Madame de Lafayette, and Fénelon.
This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early modern Europe, particularly in early modern France, before the Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination (including hostility to imagination) through the writings of such figures as Descartes, Montaigne, François de Sales, Pascal, the Marquise de Sévigné, Madame de Lafayette, and Fénelon.
Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780804751100 |
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Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 08/12/2005 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 304 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |