Sublime disorder
<br/>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 <i>philosophe’s</i> presentation of monstrosity from the <i>Lettre sur les av...
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| description | <br/>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 <i>philosophe’s</i> presentation of monstrosity from the <i>Lettre sur les aveugles</i> to <i>Le Neveu de Rameau</i>, 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. <br/><br/> Acknowledgements<br/> Abbreviations<br/> Introduction<br/> 1 From Providence to chance: the emergence of monstrosity in Diderot’s universe<br/> 2 Diderot’s revisionism: blindness and Enlightenment in the <em>Lettre sur les aveugles</em><br/> 3 Monsters and the self in <em>Le Rêve de d’Alembert</em><br/> 4 Ethical monstrosity and the Enlightenment’s <em>rejeton</em> Jean-François Rameau<br/> Conclusion<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2a49807e-8476-4223-9ad8-cf3a0471cef02022-03-26T12:24:08ZSublime disorderBookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33uuid:2a49807e-8476-4223-9ad8-cf3a0471cef0EnglishVoltaire FoundationVoltaire Foundation2017Curran, A<br/>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 <i>philosophe’s</i> presentation of monstrosity from the <i>Lettre sur les aveugles</i> to <i>Le Neveu de Rameau</i>, 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. <br/><br/> Acknowledgements<br/> Abbreviations<br/> Introduction<br/> 1 From Providence to chance: the emergence of monstrosity in Diderot’s universe<br/> 2 Diderot’s revisionism: blindness and Enlightenment in the <em>Lettre sur les aveugles</em><br/> 3 Monsters and the self in <em>Le Rêve de d’Alembert</em><br/> 4 Ethical monstrosity and the Enlightenment’s <em>rejeton</em> Jean-François Rameau<br/> Conclusion<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/> |
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