Fiction and the frontiers of knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800 /
[Book]
edited by Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadié
Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2010
x, 159 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadié -- Poetic fiction and natural philosophy in humanist Italy: Fracostoro's use of myth in Syphilis / Isabelle Pantin -- Si faut-il voir si cette belle philosophie: the language of fiction in Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal / Wes Williams -- Fictions across disciplines in seventeenth-century France / Isabelle Moreau -- Elements of fiction in Hobbes's system of philosophy / Luc Foisneau -- The making of the modern philosopher: fictions of philosophical identity in Locke and Hume / Robert Mankin -- Philosophy, ethics, and the work of fiction: Diderot's answer to Molyneux's question / Kate E. Tunstall -- The Terror as a legal fiction / Anne Simonin
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European literature-- 17th century-- History and criticism
European literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
European literature-- Renaissance, 1450-1600-- History and criticism