A Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France
—Aissance and Labor
—The Intelligence of Women
Chapter 2. Poullain de la Barre: Feminism, Radical and Polite
—Conversion
—The Mind Has No Sex
—Cartesianism for Ladies
Chapter 3. Malebranche and the Bel Esprit
—Montaigne's Sin of Style
—The Cartesian Augustinian
—Original Sin and the Labor of Attention
—The Bel Esprit
—The Author Despite Himself
Chapter 4. Love, Gallantry, and Friendship
—The Loves and Friendships of Saint-Évremond
—The Dissent of Mme de Lambert
Chapter 5. Shaftesbury's Quest for Fraternity
—The Turn to Stoicism
—The French Menace
—Friendship
— Critics, Markets, and Labor
—The Moralists
Chapter 6. The Labors of David Hume
—Writing the Treatise
—The Essayist
—The Vicissitudes of Taste
—The Philosopher and the Countess
Chapter 7. Genius and the Social: Antoine-Léonard Thomas and Suzanne
Curchod Necker
—Friends
—Amphibians
—The Labor of Genius
—Gallantry Corrupted
Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay
—Diderot's Paternal Voice
—Diderot's Clinical Voice
—Mme d'Épinay's Feminism
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
