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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

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EconomicsGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0674569512
ISBN13: 9780674569515
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 1 1986
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas...Provides a commendable model for those interested in the way 'true' and 'false' ideas interact and broadly influence behavior. --Science

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.

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