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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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