Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France
- Jaar:
- 2021
- Onderwerp:
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Diderot, Denis
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
18th Century (1701-1800)
Enlightenment
Science
Opera
Esthetics
France - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Stanford, CA Stanford University Press 2021
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.TOP FR 5 (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9781503613362
- Paginering:
- xiii-333 pages illustrations 24 cm
- Samenvatting:
- "Divining Nature traces the philosophical, aesthetic, and affective responses to the "spectacle of nature" across the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century France to uncover the preservation and proliferation of wonder in the age of reason", Introduction : the spectacle of nature -- The marvels of nature in Buffon and Rameau -- The philosophy of nature in Diderot and Rousseau -- The harmony of nature in Paul et Virginie -- The poetics of nature in Ossian and Staël -- Epilogue : a theater of enchantment.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000020604
