Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France PDF Author: Robert DARNTON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674030192
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris and began to promulgate an exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton's lively study provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.