Title Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France

Published Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) illustrations, portraits Contents Preface -- CONTENTS -- 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science -- 2. The Mesmerist Movement -- 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism -- 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory -- 5. From Mesmer to Hugo -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Appendix 1. Mesmer�s Propositions -- Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris -- Appendix 3. The Société de l�Harmonie Universelle -- Appendix 4. Bergasse�s Lectures on Mesmerism -- Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Sociétés de l�Harmonie -- Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View Summary Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Mesmerism -- France Enlightenment -- France Enlightenment. Hypnosis -- history Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) PSYCHOLOGY -- Hypnotism. SELF-HELP -- Self-Hypnosis. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. Enlightenment Intellectual life Mesmerism Mesmerisme. SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051440 France -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051436 Subject France Form Electronic book LC no. 68025607 ISBN 9780674030190 0674030192 0674569512 9780674569515 9780674569508 0674569504

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