| Description |
xv, 247 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in literature, 1500-1800 ; no. 2
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Vico's frontispiece and the Tablet of Cebes / Donald Phillip Verene -- Vico, the Counter-Enlightenment, and advanced contemporary thought / Biorgio Tagliacozzo -- Kant and the refutations of idealism in the eighteenth century / Manfred Kuehn -- The conquest of nature and the ambivalence of man in the French Englightenment: reflections on Condorcet's Fragment sur l'Atlantide / David Lachterman -- Nature is a woman: the Duchess of Newcastle and seventeenth-century philosopny / Sophia B. Blaydes -- Wollstonecraft versus Rousseau: natural religion and the sex of virtue and reason / Melissa Butler -- "All men and both sexes": concepts of men's development, women's education, and feminism in the seventeenth century / Helda L. Smith -- Madamine! a few of Mozart's females or Fanno cosi tutte? / Jane Perry-Camp -- Paradox in Paradise: nature and art in the eighteenth-century landscape garden / Collette Hall, Peter Perreten, Jane Shinehouse, Derk Visser -- |
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"Had not Joseph withheld him": portrayal of the social elite in Joseph Andrews / Brian McCrea -- Scottish philosophy and political economy / Spencer Davis -- "Government by consent of the governed" in eighteenth-century constitutional theory / Leslie Friedman Goldstein --Early eighteenth-century paraphrases of the book of Job / James E. May --Man and God in Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison / Sylvia Kasey Marks --The pathetic and sublime: the tragic formula of John Home's Douglas / David Wheeler -- The fear of fiction / Robert W. Uphaus -- The scientist in shirt-sleeves: Charles Bonnet's letters on parthenogenesis / Virginia P. Dawson -- Linguistic and biological classification in the eighteenth century / W. Keith Percival -- Diderot's comparative linguistics: the philosophe's English / Bonnie Arden Robb -- Paradigmatic, narrative, and genetic histories, or the perils of relying on Thomas Kuhn / Joseph Musser, Jr. |
| Subject |
Enlightenment -- Europe.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Mell, Donald Charles.
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Braun, Theodore E. D.
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Palmer, L. M. (Lucia M.)
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| ISBN |
0937191132 (pbk.) |
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0937191035 |
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