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Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France - Intellectual History of the Modern Age Anne C. Vila
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France - Intellectual History of the Modern Age
Anne C. Vila
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.
280 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 15, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812249927 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 164 × 22 mm · 521 g |