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Books by Catherine Labio






Origins and the Enlightenment(1st Edition)
Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant
by Catherine Labio
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4275-9, ISBN: 0-8014-4275-3

"What epistemic assumptions framed eighteenth-century thinkers’ speculations regarding origins? What, if anything, connected these speculations? The best way to understand the Enlightenment’s obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of originality as a criterion of aesthetic value, Catherine Labio maintains. Her expansive survey of the era’s thought places special emphasis on epistemolo ..."






Yale French Studies, Number 102
Belgian Memories (Paperback)
by Catherine Labio
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09772-6, ISBN: 0-300-09772-7

"Part 1 Pierre Mertens, Perasma: A Novel (excerpt) Antoon Van den Braembussche, The Silenced Past: Trauma and Taboo in Belgian Memories Luc de Heusch, Ceci n'est pas la Belgique Piet Van de Craen, What, if Anything, Is a Belgian?"






The Great Mirror of Folly
Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, Timothy Young, Robert Shiller, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Timothy G. Young
Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2013 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16246-2, ISBN: 0-300-16246-4

"The world’s first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris, and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch collection of satirical prints, plays, poetry, commentary, and financial prospectuses entitled Het groote Tafereel de Dwaasheid (The Great Mirror of Folly), a unique and lavish record of the ..."






Origins and the Enlightenment
Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant
by Catherine Labio
208 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2743-6, ISBN: 1-5017-2743-5

"We should perhaps not be surprised to find a close connection between the eighteenth-century fascination with origins ... what Louis Dumont calls “ artificialism" in his pathbreaking book on the emergence and triumph of homo oeconomicus. ... The first, second, and fifth chapters are devoted to contributions made by key individual thinkers, namely, Descartes, Vico, ... Walter Jackson Bate, From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste ..."

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