Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France / / Robert Darnton.
Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radica...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science
- 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism
- 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory
- 5. From Mesmer to Hugo
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions
- Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris
- Appendix 3. The Societe de !'Harmonie Universelle
- Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism
- Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de !'Harmonie
- Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View
- Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text
- Index