Kapitel in diesem Buch

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