From Perfectibility to Perversion

From Perfectibility to Perversion
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0820474959
ISBN-13 : 9780820474953
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Book Synopsis From Perfectibility to Perversion by : Michael E. Winston

Download or read book From Perfectibility to Perversion written by Michael E. Winston and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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