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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France / Robert Darnton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1968Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674030190
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 154.7/2
LOC classification:
  • BF1125 ǂb D37 1968eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science -- 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism -- 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory -- 5. From Mesmer to Hugo -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions -- Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris -- Appendix 3. The Societe de !'Harmonie Universelle -- Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism -- Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de !'Harmonie -- Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View -- Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text -- Index
Summary: Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science -- 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism -- 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory -- 5. From Mesmer to Hugo -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions -- Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris -- Appendix 3. The Societe de !'Harmonie Universelle -- Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism -- Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de !'Harmonie -- Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View -- Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text -- Index

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Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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