Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France

by Robert Darnton

First published:
20th century
Language: English

No ratings yet

Read free

Description

Description from OpenAlex

1. Mesmerism and Popular Science 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory 5. From Mesmer to Hugo 6. Conclusion Bibliographical Note Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris Appendix 3. The Societe de l'Harmonie Universelle Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de l'Harmonie Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text Index

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.

Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Controlled discovery queries from crossref, openalex, and openlibrary matched “mesmerism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title, “Mesmerism” in the description, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “mesmerism”· via Crossref
- “mesmerism”· via OpenAlex
- “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
- “Mesmerism”· in title
- “Mesmerism”· in description
- “Mesmerism”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

OpenAlex
OpenAlex location license: cc-by-nc OpenAlex location license: cc-by

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 0674569504; other editions may be cheaper. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

Open Library reports 7 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Crossref publisher-supplied book record	1995	Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press eBooks	English	9780674030190 9780674569508 0674569504	Print-disabled access	Open Library (opens in a new tab) Crossref (opens in a new tab) Crossref (opens in a new tab) OpenAlex (opens in a new tab)