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Fashion on the Brain: The Visible and Invisible Bonds of the Imagination in Malebranche.

This article explores Nicolas Malebranche's approach to fashion: an inescapable postlapsarian consequence of God's sociable design of the human mind and body as manifested in the imagination. A problematic side effect of the general laws established by God governing the soul-body relationship, fashi...

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Published in:French Historical Studies Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 415 - 450
Main Author: Hamerton, Katharine J.
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Aug2022
Subjects:
Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715
Imagination (Philosophy)
God
Social impact bonds
Enlightenment
Cognitive ability
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