Correspondence and Epistolary Fiction: La Fête. Science and Medicine. Voltaire, Issue 6The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French. |
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... thinkers of the Enlightenment , instinct was therefore tainted with a whiff of incense , which led them to treat it with sus- picion if not outright hostility . The theological origins of the concept of instinct The argument from design ...
... thinkers of the Enlightenment , instinct was therefore tainted with a whiff of incense , which led them to treat it with sus- picion if not outright hostility . The theological origins of the concept of instinct The argument from design ...
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... thinkers showed a wide range of attitudes towards innate instinct , from those who accepted the traditional theological interpretation , to those who rejected instinct altogether . It is natural to ask whether these individual ...
... thinkers showed a wide range of attitudes towards innate instinct , from those who accepted the traditional theological interpretation , to those who rejected instinct altogether . It is natural to ask whether these individual ...
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... thinkers , we need say nothing of Hume , while other leading figures - Hutcheson , Reid , Kames and Brown in particular – held moderate or liberal opinions in both religion and politics.2 291 Despite these reservations and exceptions ...
... thinkers , we need say nothing of Hume , while other leading figures - Hutcheson , Reid , Kames and Brown in particular – held moderate or liberal opinions in both religion and politics.2 291 Despite these reservations and exceptions ...
Contents
CHARLES A PORTER JOAN HINDE STEWART AND ENGLISH SHOWALTER | 5 |
ENGLISH SHOWALTER HOW Mme de Graffigny made ends meet | 17 |
JEAN SGARD Les pratiques de lecture de Mme de Graffigny | 27 |
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