Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment

It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de la Bretonne - constructed a “political zoology” informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and physiology.

• | Author: Andrew Billing
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781032605760
• | ISBN-10: 1032605766