Natania Meeker
Biographic Data
| ID | 461851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natania Meeker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natania |
| FAMILY NAME | Meeker |
| SIGNATURE | MEEKER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Art of Self-Deception”
This chapter explores the way in which libertine materialisms of the seventeenth and eighteenth century engage with a Roman philosophical legacy. The intellectual attitudes connoted by “libertinism” on the one hand and “materialism” on the other remain at odds with one another as the Enlightenment wears on. In a rearticulation of Lucretian themes, however, the two positions find a point of convergence. With the return to Lucretius, libertine mate…
Voluptuous Philosophy
Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself-in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies-as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure-how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?-are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debate…
Radical Botany
Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and ch…
Radical Botany
Radical Botany uncovers a long speculative tradition of plant fiction that conjures up new languages to grasp the life of plants—their vegetality—in all its specificity and vigor. The first part of the book reaches back to seventeenth-century materialisms to show how plants, rather than being systematically excluded from human deliberation, have in fact participated in modernity. The French authors with whom the work begins turn to plants to thin…
Libertine botany
Who Will Remember Us? Plants and the Archive
Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love
Book Review| September 01 2011 Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love Loubère, Stéphanie. L'Art d'aimer au siècle des Lumières (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2007). Pp. vii+ 343. 4 ills. $140 Natania Meeker Natania Meeker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1336835 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Voluptuous Philosophy
"Voluptuous Philosophy" published on by Fordham University Press.
Voluptuous philosophy
"Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself--in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies--as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure--how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?--are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century d…
Empiricism, Substance, Narrative
Empiricism, Substance, Narrative:An Introduction Helen Thompson (bio) and Natania Meeker (bio) Why pose the question of empiricism's relationship to literature? How has empiricism functioned as a structuring principle within narratives of the emergence of eighteenth-century literary modernity? Certainly, eighteenth-century scholars claim the novel as a privileged scene for the enactment of empiricist presumptions. On the one hand, the genre's nar…
All times are present to her”
JEMCS 3.2 (Fall/Winter2003) "All times are present to her": Femininity, Temporality, and Libertinage in Diderot's "Sur les femmes" Natania Meeker Denis Diderot begins his essay, "Sur les femmes* ("On Women"), with a declaration of affection for another man: "J'aime Thomas" ("I love Thomas"; [949]), he proclaims. Diderot goes on to skewer his acquaintance Antoine-L?onard Thomas for the arid prose, lack ofwit, and excessive impar tiality of his Ess…
Libertine botany
All times are present to her”
JEMCS 3.2 (Fall/Winter2003) "All times are present to her": Femininity, Temporality, and Libertinage in Diderot's "Sur les femmes" Natania Meeker Denis Diderot begins his essay, "Sur les femmes* ("On Women"), with a declaration of affection for another man: "J'aime Thomas" ("I love Thomas"; [949]), he proclaims. Diderot goes on to skewer his acquaintance Antoine-L?onard Thomas for the arid prose, lack ofwit, and excessive impar tiality of his Ess…
All times are present to her”
JEMCS 3.2 (Fall/Winter2003) "All times are present to her": Femininity, Temporality, and Libertinage in Diderot's "Sur les femmes" Natania Meeker Denis Diderot begins his essay, "Sur les femmes* ("On Women"), with a declaration of affection for another man: "J'aime Thomas" ("I love Thomas"; [949]), he proclaims. Diderot goes on to skewer his acquaintance Antoine-L?onard Thomas for the arid prose, lack ofwit, and excessive impar tiality of his Ess…
Voluptuous Philosophy
"Voluptuous Philosophy" published on by Fordham University Press.
Voluptuous philosophy
"Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself--in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies--as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure--how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?--are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century d…
Empiricism, Substance, Narrative
Empiricism, Substance, Narrative:An Introduction Helen Thompson (bio) and Natania Meeker (bio) Why pose the question of empiricism's relationship to literature? How has empiricism functioned as a structuring principle within narratives of the emergence of eighteenth-century literary modernity? Certainly, eighteenth-century scholars claim the novel as a privileged scene for the enactment of empiricist presumptions. On the one hand, the genre's nar…
Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love
Book Review| September 01 2011 Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love Loubère, Stéphanie. L'Art d'aimer au siècle des Lumières (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2007). Pp. vii+ 343. 4 ills. $140 Natania Meeker Natania Meeker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1336835 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Who Will Remember Us? Plants and the Archive
Libertine botany
Radical Botany
Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants’ liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and ch…
Radical Botany
Radical Botany uncovers a long speculative tradition of plant fiction that conjures up new languages to grasp the life of plants—their vegetality—in all its specificity and vigor. The first part of the book reaches back to seventeenth-century materialisms to show how plants, rather than being systematically excluded from human deliberation, have in fact participated in modernity. The French authors with whom the work begins turn to plants to thin…
Voluptuous Philosophy
Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself-in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies-as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure-how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?-are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debate…
“The Art of Self-Deception”
This chapter explores the way in which libertine materialisms of the seventeenth and eighteenth century engage with a Roman philosophical legacy. The intellectual attitudes connoted by “libertinism” on the one hand and “materialism” on the other remain at odds with one another as the Enlightenment wears on. In a rearticulation of Lucretian themes, however, the two positions find a point of convergence. With the return to Lucretius, libertine mate…
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