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The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment
By (Author) Suzanne Gearhart
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th April 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
194
Paperback
312
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Challenging the view that a critical sense of history is missing from the Enlightenment, Suzanne Gearhart links the works of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rosseau with the inquiry into the boundary between literature and history in contemporary critical discourse. She considers the theories of Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Althusser, Genette, White