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John D. Lyons, Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau

John D. Lyons

Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau

Stanford University Press, 2005

282 p.

Table des matières:

Preface
Introduction
1. The Return of Stoic Imagination
2. Self-Cultivation and Religious Meditation
3. Picturing Ourselves in the World: Pascal's Pensées
4. The Imagination of Loss
5. From Imagination to Significance: The Novel from Scudéry to Lafayette
6. How the Ancients Modernized Imagination
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Parmi les auteurs traités:
Descartes, Montaigne, François de Sales, Pascal, Mme de Sévigné, Mme de Lafayette, Fénelon

Voir résumé sur le site des Presses Universitaires de Stanford:
www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5110

[ Mis en ligne le 28 octobre 2005 par Volker Schröder ]