{"product_id":"mesmerism-and-the-end-of-the-enlightenment-in-france-9780674569515","title":"Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Darnton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Hypnotism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas...Provides a commendable model for those interested in the way 'true' and 'false' ideas interact and broadly influence behavior.\" --\u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly 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.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46894034124951,"sku":"9780674569515","price":3486.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674569515.webp?v=1770320974","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mesmerism-and-the-end-of-the-enlightenment-in-france-9780674569515","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}