The Labor of the Mind : Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures / Anthony J. La Vopa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Vopa, Anthony J., author.

Series:

Intellectual history of the modern age.

Intellectual History of the Modern Age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellect--Social aspects--France--History--17th century.

Intellect.

Intellect--Social aspects--France--History--18th century.

Intellect--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Sex role--France--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

France.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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-Leonard Thomas and Suzanne Curchod Necker

Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)

ISBN:

9780812294187

0812294181

OCLC:

1003972408