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Author Van den Abbeele, Georges

Title Travel as metaphor : from Montaigne to Rousseau / Georges van den Abbeele
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 176 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Economy of Travel -- Chapter 1. Equestrian Montaigne -- Circulating in Italy: Travel Journal -- Unbridled Leisure: Of Idleness -- An Accidental Body; or, The Paternal Limit: Of Practice -- All Roads Lead Back to Rome: Of Vanity -- Chapter 2. Cartesian Coordinates -- Finding One's Footing: Second Meditation -- Wanderings in Error: Discourse on Method, Meditations -- Chapter 3. Montesquieu's Grand Tour -- A View from the Top: Journey from Graz to The Hague -- The Occidental Tourist
Or, The Drift of History: The Spirit of the LawsChapter 4. Pedestrian Rousseau -- Pedagogy and the Teleology of Travel: Emile -- Oedipal Returns; The Law of Succession: Emile and Sophie; or, the Solitary Ones -- Walking and Writing: Confessions -- The Fall of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Second Promenade -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Views on travel
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Views on travel
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Views on travel
SUBJECT Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 fast
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast
Subject Philosophy, French -- 16th century.
Philosophy, French -- 17th century.
Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
Travel.
Travel
travel.
Philosophy, French
Travel
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816683727
0816683727