Mesmerism And The End Of The Enlightenment In France, Darnton, Robert
Автор: Martineau Название: Letters on Mesmerism ISBN: 1108027407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108027403 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suffering from serious illness in the early 1840s, the writer Harriet Martineau turned to the popular alternative therapy of mesmerism. She attributed her apparent cure to this, and published this account of the treatment as a book in 1845. This reissue also includes her doctor`s defence of his standard treatments.
Автор: Carpenter Название: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, etc. ISBN: 1108027393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108027397 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3802.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The London medical researcher William Carpenter (1813-1885) set out to challenge the growing public belief in spiritualism, something he saw as `epidemic delusions`. In these two lectures, published in 1877, he considers the historical and scientific contexts of occult practices including mesmerism, thought-reading and clairvoyance.
Автор: Kiesewetter Название: Franz Anton Mesmer`s Leben und Lehre ISBN: 1108072771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108072779 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3802.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Karl Kiesewetter (1854-1895), an influential German theosophical writer, published this biography of Mesmer (1734-1815) in 1893. It begins with a substantial history of `animal magnetism`, trances and divination. It then focuses on Mesmer`s life and his controversial theories and medical treatments, and includes extracts from his work.
Автор: Hall Название: Mesmeric Experiences ISBN: 1108027415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108027410 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Spencer Timothy Hall (1812-1885) was a printer and writer who became a mesmerist. This book, first published in 1845, describes Hall`s involvement with mesmerism and several medical cases including that of Harriet Martineau. It provides valuable insights into the practice and theory of mesmerism in the early Victorian period.
Автор: Rudy Название: Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain ISBN: 1137411538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137411532 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.
Описание: The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main thre
Описание: A passionate defence of Mesmerism, a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism, first published in 1840 by one of its most prominent nineteenth-century practitioners, a friend of Dickens. Townshend includes eye-witness accounts of hypnotic experiments, both from the subject`s and the Mesmeriser`s viewpoint.
Автор: Podmore Название: Mesmerism and Christian Science ISBN: 1108072461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108072465 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A history driven by interests in psychical research, this book traces Victorian spiritualist movements from origins in the work of the eighteenth-century Austrian physician Friedrich Mesmer. Starting from Mesmer`s Animal Magnetism, Podmore discusses spiritualism, theosophy, and Christian Science, and provides a biography of important individuals in these movements.
Автор: Linton Название: The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France ISBN: 0333949595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333949597 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first study to focus on the idea of virtue and its place in political thought in eighteenth-century France. There is also consideration of the ways in which numerous popular writers of the day, including clerics, eulogists, journalists, novelists and lawyers, employed the idea of virtue in polemical discussions in their writings.
Автор: Vardi Название: The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment ISBN: 1107681405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107681408 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Physiocracy, an eighteenth-century French economic theory widely considered a forerunner of modern economics, argued that wealth derived exclusively from agriculture. This work places the Physiocrats in context by inscribing economic thought within broader Enlightenment trends and offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and its complicated relation to modern economics.
Автор: O`Connell Название: Libertine Enlightenment ISBN: 1403917639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403917638 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17468.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sex in the 18th century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts.
Автор: Stanley Название: The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism ISBN: 1107639697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107639690 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sharon A. Stanley analyzes cynicism from a political-theoretical perspective, arguing that cynicism isn`t unique to our time and argues instead that the French philosophes reveal the possibility of a democratically hospitable form of cynicism.
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