Animal rhetoric and natural science in eighteenth-century liberal political writing: political zoologies of the french enlightenment
Auteur :
Billing, Andrew
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032605722
Date de publication :
7 déc. 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de la Bretonne - constructed a “political zoology†informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and physiology.