The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment

by John C. O'Neal

In The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, John C. O'Neal draws largely on the etymological meaning of the word confusion as the action of mixing or blending in order to trace the development of this project which, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and recognized the need to embrace complexity. Eighteenth-century thinkers used the notion of confusion in a progressive way to reorganize social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490243
• ISBN13: 9781611490244
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"