Julie Candler Hayes explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, a genre focusing on dispassionate observations on the human condition and traditionally viewed through its best-known male writers. This study, the first of its kind, includes both famous thinkers--such as Émilie Du Châtelet and Germaine de Staël--and nearly two dozen of their contemporaries. Hayes demonstrates how, through their critique of institutions and practices, their valorization of introspection and self-expression, and their engagement…mehr
Julie Candler Hayes explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, a genre focusing on dispassionate observations on the human condition and traditionally viewed through its best-known male writers. This study, the first of its kind, includes both famous thinkers--such as Émilie Du Châtelet and Germaine de Staël--and nearly two dozen of their contemporaries. Hayes demonstrates how, through their critique of institutions and practices, their valorization of introspection and self-expression, and their engagement with philosophical issues, women moralists carved out an important space for the public exercise of their reason.
Julie Candler Hayes is Professor Emerita of French at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she served first as department chair and later as dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts from 2010 to 2020. Her research interests include early modern philosophy and literature, theories of language, literary theory, and translation studies. A Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2010, she is past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington Library, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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Preamble Acknowledgements A Note on Names A Note on Texts I. Introduction: The Moralist World 1. Moralists and Moralizers 2. Unsystematic Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern France 4. Women Moralists and the Canon 5. Corpus and topics: Who is a Moralist? II. On Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self 1. Scudéry: Conversation 2. Dupin: Sensation and Belief 3. Verzure: Comparison 4. Necker: Writing 5. Guizot: Doubts 6. Introspection and the Act of Writing III. On Friendship 1. Foundations of Friendship 2. Rituals of Friendship: Reciprocity, Exchange, Secrets 3. Sameness and Difference 4. The Politics of Reconnaissance IV. On Happiness and the Passions 1. From the Passsions to Passion 2. The Worlds of La Sablière and Dupin 3. Practical Guidance in Du Châtelet and Fourqueux 4. The Passions and Their Discontents in d'Arconville 5. Staël's Phenomenology of Passion V. On Marriage 1. The Philosophical and Legal Critique 2. The Implicit Moralist Critique: Lambert and Puisieux 3. The Explicit Moralist Critique: Verzure and d'Arconville 4. Suzanne Necker's Defense of Marriage 5. On Liberty VI. On Age and Experience 1. Experience, Knowledge, and the Seasons of Life 2. Codes of Conduct 3. Not her last word: d'Arconville on Old Age VII. On Women's Nature and Capabilities 1. Politeness and Embodiment 2. Portraits and Mirrors: Pringy's Differens caractères des femmes du siècle 3. Nature, Culture, and the désir de plaire 4. Comment peut-on être femme auteur? Conclusion Bibliography Index
Preamble Acknowledgements A Note on Names A Note on Texts I. Introduction: The Moralist World 1. Moralists and Moralizers 2. Unsystematic Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern France 4. Women Moralists and the Canon 5. Corpus and topics: Who is a Moralist? II. On Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self 1. Scudéry: Conversation 2. Dupin: Sensation and Belief 3. Verzure: Comparison 4. Necker: Writing 5. Guizot: Doubts 6. Introspection and the Act of Writing III. On Friendship 1. Foundations of Friendship 2. Rituals of Friendship: Reciprocity, Exchange, Secrets 3. Sameness and Difference 4. The Politics of Reconnaissance IV. On Happiness and the Passions 1. From the Passsions to Passion 2. The Worlds of La Sablière and Dupin 3. Practical Guidance in Du Châtelet and Fourqueux 4. The Passions and Their Discontents in d'Arconville 5. Staël's Phenomenology of Passion V. On Marriage 1. The Philosophical and Legal Critique 2. The Implicit Moralist Critique: Lambert and Puisieux 3. The Explicit Moralist Critique: Verzure and d'Arconville 4. Suzanne Necker's Defense of Marriage 5. On Liberty VI. On Age and Experience 1. Experience, Knowledge, and the Seasons of Life 2. Codes of Conduct 3. Not her last word: d'Arconville on Old Age VII. On Women's Nature and Capabilities 1. Politeness and Embodiment 2. Portraits and Mirrors: Pringy's Differens caractères des femmes du siècle 3. Nature, Culture, and the désir de plaire 4. Comment peut-on être femme auteur? Conclusion Bibliography Index
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