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Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?

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© 2018 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Abbreviations vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750–89 20
  6. 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist 46
  7. 3. Passions and the Philosophe 68
  8. 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot 92
  9. 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Stael 123
  10. 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution 150
  11. Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All? 176
  12. Notes 183
  13. Bibliography of Primary Sources 239
  14. Index 253
  15. Acknowledgments 265
Suffering Scholars
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294804-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Abbreviations vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750–89 20
  6. 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist 46
  7. 3. Passions and the Philosophe 68
  8. 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot 92
  9. 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Stael 123
  10. 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution 150
  11. Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All? 176
  12. Notes 183
  13. Bibliography of Primary Sources 239
  14. Index 253
  15. Acknowledgments 265
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