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The Age of Minerva, Volume 1

Counter-Rational Reason in the Eighteenth Century--Goya and the Paradigm of Unreason in Western Europe
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Ilie Paul :

Paul Ilie is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

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    CONTENTS

    VII
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    FIGURES

    XI
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    XIII
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    Overture to Discontinuity

    1
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    1. The Minervan Hypothesis

    24
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    2. The Bats of Minerva

    57
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    3. The Lapsed Enlightener

    78
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    4. Rational Unreason

    108
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    5. The Lexicon of Unreason

    137
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    6. The Nonrational Thought Process

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    7. Visionary Reason

    213
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    8. Polymorphosis of Reason

    253
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    9. Preternatural Science

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    Transition: The Discontinuity of Reason and Spirit

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    Bibliography

    377
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    Name Index

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    Subject Index

    405
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    Backmatter

    412
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Reprint 2016
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Cultural Studies; Literature
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