| Тойм: | <br/>Marian Hobson’s work has made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and Rousseau in particular. This book presents her most important articles in a single volume, translated into English for the first time. <br/> Hobson’s distinctive approach is to take a given text or <em>problématique</em> and position it within its intellectual, historical and polemical context. From close analysis of the underlying conceptual structures of literary texts, she offers a unique insight into the vibrant networks of people and ideas at work throughout Europe, and across disciplinary boundaries as diverse as literature and mathematics, medicine and music. <br/> In their translations of Hobson’s essays, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman present the primary sources in both the original eighteenth-century French and modern English, making the detail of these debates accessible to everyone, from the specialist to the student, whatever their academic discipline or interest. <br/><br/> Kate E. Tunstall <em>and</em> Caroline Warman, Opening lines<br/> 1. Introduction. From Diderot to Rousseau via Rameau (2005)<br/> I. The <em>Paradoxe sur le comédien</em><br/> 2. The <em>Paradoxe sur le comédien</em> is a paradox (1973)<br/> 3. Sensibility and spectacle: the medical context for the <em>Paradoxe</em> (1977)<br/> II. <em>Le Neveu de Rameau</em><br/> 4. Pantomime, spasm and parataxis: <em>Le Neveu de Rameau</em> (1984) <br/> 5. Deictics and dialectics in <em>Le Neveu de Rameau</em> (1992)<br/> 6. Lists, parataxis and <em>Le Neveu de Rameau</em> (1995)<br/> III. Causality<br/> 7. <em>Jacques le fataliste</em>: the art of the probable (1985)<br/> 8. ‘Nexus effectivus’ and ‘nexus finalis’; causality in Rousseau’s <em>Discours sur l’inégalité</em> and the <em>Essai sur l’origine des langues</em> (1992)<br/> IV. Aesthetics<br/> 9. Philosophy and Rococo style (2002)<br/> 10. Diderot’s <em>Lettre sur les sourds et muets</em>: language and labyrinth (1976)<br/> 11. Kant, Rousseau and music (1980)<br/> V. Measurement<br/> 12. Architecture, analogy and proportion (1991)<br/> 13. How to take the measure of a character (2002)<br/> 14. Measuring statues, or, special neutrality (2004)<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>
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