Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment: 2001:01)
By:
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781786943842
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780729407496
- Publisher:
- Voltaire Foundation
- Date of Addition:
- 11/01/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Voltaire Foundation
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.