Suffering Scholars

Informationen zum Autor Anne C. Vila is the Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. Klappentext Anne C. Vila is the Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. Zusammenfassung Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations IntroductionChapter 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89Chapter 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous CerebralistChapter 3. Passions and the PhilosopheChapter 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and DiderotChapter 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and StaëlChapter 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the RevolutionEpilogue. Not So Singular, After All? NotesBibliography of Primary SourcesIndexAcknowledgments

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Anne C. Vila

Résumé
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.

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List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89
Chapter 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist
Chapter 3. Passions and the Philosophe
Chapter 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot
Chapter 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël
Chapter 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution
Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?
Notes
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index
Acknowledgments