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Balladur, Laura Cecilia.

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Imagination, physiology, and the dynamics of representation in Enlightenment France (Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Charles Bonnet).

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Title/Author:	Imagination, physiology, and the dynamics of representation in Enlightenment France (Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Charles Bonnet)./
Author:	Balladur, Laura Cecilia.
Description:	310 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3666.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3191940
ISBN:	0542363909

Imagination, physiology, and the dynamics of representation in Enlightenment France (Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Charles Bonnet).
Balladur, Laura Cecilia.

Imagination, physiology, and the dynamics of representation in Enlightenment France (Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Charles Bonnet). - 310 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3666.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2005.

Imagination today evokes an elusive and transcendent quality. But in Enlightenment debates on the mind-body duality, imagination was a physiological mechanism that bridged the body to the mind. Like all other bodies, therefore, it derived its laws from classical mechanics. As a mechanism thought to bridge forms and ideas, it was the only internal sense believed to be active during dreams. This physiological principle, evident in numerous treatises of the period, guides my organization: framing my analysis with three dreams of Rene Descartes and Denis Diderot's Le Reve de D'Alembert (c. 1769), I study imagination in works by Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, and Charles Bonnet, authors who greatly shaped the Enlightenment's scientific and intellectual history. I argue that the emergence of a proto-biological model conceptualizes imagination. From an internal sense that was thought to be situated inside the folds of the brain, imagination becomes an abstract and dynamic aspect of representation. But for eighteenth-century thinkers, the emergence of a biological model was not specific to reproduction: understood more broadly as an inherent motive force that powers matter to transform itself, a proto-biological model emerges in the physical sciences as well in the form of dynamics. This field brings into clearer focus the transformative and conceptual nature of imagination's mechanism, understood by the late eighteenth century to express the dynamic (and self-differentiating) nature of modern representation. A short conclusion contrasts Descartes's metaphor of the mind with contemporary visual culture: fountains and cinema perform, in a hidden space, the dominant ideology of the gaze.

ISBN: 0542363909Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

Imagination, physiology, and the dynamics of representation in Enlightenment France (Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Malebranche, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Charles Bonnet).
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