Andrew Billing

Broschiertes Buch

Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing

Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment

Beschreibung

It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and RÃ tif de la Bretonne - constructed a â political zoologyâ informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and physiology.

Autor

Andrew Billing is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, who specializes in French Enlightenment literature, philosophy, and political thought. He completed his doctorate on Rousseau's political writings at the University of California, Irvine. He has articles published and forthcoming on Rousseau, Quesnay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Diderot, and other early modern French political authors, and co-edited a special volume of L'Esprit Créateur on Paris, capitalism and modernity with Juliette Cherbuliez.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in French and Francophone Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781032605760
• ISBN-10: 1032605766
• Artikelnr.: 73870722

Rezensionen

"The timely intervention of Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing leaves an indelible mark in the conversation around liberalism, animality, and human nature in eighteenth-century European thought [...] By tracking the animal through the mutually constitutive, hybrid frames of natural science and political philosophy, Billing, with nuanced theoretical discernment, successfully and provocatively realigns the parameters of current discussions about the French Enlightenment and its legacy."

- Scott Venters, Drama and Humanities, Dallas College