Suffering Scholars : : Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France / / Anne C. Vila.
As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was no...
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Vila, Anne C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Suffering Scholars : Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Intellectual History of the Modern Age Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750–89 -- 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist -- 3. Passions and the Philosophe -- 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot -- 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Stael -- 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution -- Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All? -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a phenomenon illustrated by the popularity of works such as Samuel-Auguste Tissot's De la santé des gens de lettres, first published in 1768. Though hardly limited to French-speaking Europe, the link between mental endeavor and physical disorder was embraced with particular vigor there, as was the tendency to imbue intellectuals with an aura of otherness and detachment from the world. Intellectuals and artists were portrayed as peculiarly susceptible to altered states of health as well as psyche—the combination of mental intensity and somatic frailty proved both the privileges and the perils of knowledge-seeking and creative endeavor.In Suffering Scholars, Anne C. Vila focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around great intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Beginning with Tissot's work, which launched a subgenre of health advice aimed specifically at scholars, she demonstrates how writers like Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mme de Staël, responded to the "suffering scholar" syndrome and helped to shape it. She traces the ways in which this syndrome influenced the cultural perceptions of iconic personae such as the philosophe, the solitary genius, and the learned lady. By showing how crucial the so-called suffering scholar was to debates about the mind-body relation as well as to sex and sensibility, Vila sheds light on the consequences book-learning was thought to have on both the individual body and the body politic, not only in the eighteenth century but also into the decades following the Revolution. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Electronic books. Enlightenment France. Enlightenment-France. Intellectuals Health and hygiene France History 18th century. Intellectuals Health and hygiene France History 19th century. Intellectuals France History 18th century. Intellectuals France History 19th century. Intellectuals-France-History-18th century. Intellectuals-France-History-19th century. Intellectuals-Health and hygiene-France-History-18th century. Intellectuals-Health and hygiene-France-History-19th century. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Cultural Studies. European History. History. Literature. World History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 English 9783110604030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 9783110603149 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294804 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294804 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812294804/original |
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