Sublime Disorder : Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe Paperback / softback
by Andrew Curran
Part of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series
Paperback / softback
Description
This work places Diderot’s fascination with anatomical anomalies or monsters within the context of the history of ideas, philosophy, and science.
By chronicling the ideological component of the philosophe’s presentation of monstrosity from the Lettre sur les aveugles to Le Neveu de Rameau, this book reveals Diderot’s ‘random and accidental’ monsters to be, ironically, the most teleological of all beings: created and staged, as it were, for a particular textual world where materialist dogma is as important as disinterested anatomical study.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:183 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780729407496
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:183 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780729407496
