Session Details

Sunday, 27 December

27. Enlightenment Science and Religion

3:30–4:45 p.m., Washington A, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington Univ.

1. “From Mystic Science to the Materialist Dream: The Technologies of Altered Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century France,” Charly Coleman, Washington Univ.

2. “‘The Daughters of Eve’: Science, Seduction, and Biblical Narrative in the Eighteenth-Century Gendering of Knowledge,” Cecilia A. Feilla, Marymount Manhattan Coll.

3. “La philosophie libertine, à la croisée des domaines scientifiques et religieux,” Jennifer Tamas, Stanford Univ.

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