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题名/责任者:

Animal rhetoric and natural science in eighteenth-century liberal political writing : political zoologies of the French Enlightenment / Andrew Billing.

出版发行项:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

ISBN:

9781032605722

ISBN:

1032605723

ISBN:

9781032605760

ISBN:

1032605766

载体形态项:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

丛编说明:

Routledge studies in French and Francophone literature

个人责任者:

Billing, Andrew, 1972- author.

论题主题:

Political science-France-Philosophy-History-18th century.

论题主题:

Enlightenment-France.

论题主题:

Animals in literature.

论题主题:

Natural history in literature.

中图法分类号:

D095.654

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period. As Mich猫le Duchet and others have shown, French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical anthropology to support new political norms and models. This book explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors-Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and R茅tif de La Bretonne-also constructed a "political zoology" in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history, science, and physiology. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida, Latour, de Fontenay, and others, it shows how these five authors signed on to the old rhetorical tradition of animal comparisons in political philosophy, which they renewed via the findings and speculations of contemporary science. Engaging with recent scholarship on Enlightenment political thought, it also explores the links between their political zoologies and their family resemblance as "liberal" political thinkers"--

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