TY - BOOK ID - 6872978 TI - Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France. PY - 1968 SN - 0674569512 0674030192 0674569504 9780674030190 9780674569515 9780674569508 PB - Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment. KW - France KW - Intellectual life. KW - Aufklärung KW - Eighteenth century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Mesmer, Franz-Anton KW - Enlightenment KW - Mesmerism KW - Intellectual life KW - Alternative medicine KW - Subconsciousness KW - Animal magnetism KW - Hypnotism KW - Magnetic healing KW - Therapeutics, Suggestive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6872978 AB - Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels. ER -