Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment - Meeker, Natania
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In 18th-century France, matter itself?in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies?became a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure?How should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers??are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates about the nature of material substance.

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In 18th-century France, matter itself?in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies?became a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure?How should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers??are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates about the nature of material substance.
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Natania Meeker is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She published Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment with Fordham University Press in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include animated and animating plants, vegetal ontologies, plant art and media, materialisms old and new, feminist theory and thought, and the Enlightenment, broadly conceived. She was named Chevalier de l¿Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2017.