The labor of the mind : intellect and gender in Enlightenment cultures /

The Labor of the Mind plumbs the Enlightenment's social and cultural logic of conceiving the mind as manly; considers the textual representations of the manly mind; and examines the ways in which it was subverted or at least subtly questioned.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LaVopa, Anthony J., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Intellect > Social aspects > France > History > 17th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Masculinity > France > History > 17th century.
Masculinity > France > History > 18th century.
Masculinity > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Masculinity > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Sex role > France > History > 17th century.
Sex role > France > History > 18th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > Social aspects > France.
Enlightenment > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Intelligence > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Intelligence > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Intelligence > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Intelligence > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Masculinité > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Masculinité > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Masculinité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Masculinité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > Aspect social > France.
Siècle des Lumières > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Intellect > Social aspects
Masculinity
Sex role
France
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Translations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France
  • Chapter 2. Poullain de la Barre: Feminism, Radical and Polite
  • Chapter 3. Malebranche and the Bel Esprit
  • Chapter 4. Love, Gallantry, and Friendship
  • Chapter 5. Shaftesbury's Quest for Fraternity
  • Chapter 6. The Labors of David Hume
  • Chapter 7. Genius and the Social: Antoine-Léonard Thomas and Suzanne Curchod Necker
  • Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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