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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. / /

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS: / / 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 Société de l¿Harmonie Universelle / Appendix 4. Bergasse¿s Lectures on Mesmerism / Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Sociétés de l¿Harmonie / Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View / Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text / Index / /