Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
by
Anne C. Vila
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until...