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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: LaVopa, Anthony J., 1945- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Collection:Intellectual history of the modern age.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.