Women moralists in early modern France

• Verfasst von: Hayes, Julie Candler [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Women moralists in early modern France
• Verf.angabe: Julie Candler Hayes
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xiv, 284 Seiten
• Illustrationen: 1 Illustration
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768860-1
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768863-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Frankreich / (s)Frau / (s)Moralistik / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Hayes, Julie Candler, - 1955-: Women moralists in early modern France. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource
• RVK-Notation: IF 6250
• RVK-Notation: CF 1200
• K10plus-PPN: 1858927579

Abstract

"This book examines the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing. Moralist writing, a distinctively French genre, draws on philosophical and literary traditions extending back to classical antiquity. Closely connected to salon culture and influenced by Augustinianism, it engages social and political questions, epistemology, moral psychology, and virtue ethics. The first half of the book analyses women's use of moralist forms such as the essay, maxim, and "character" or portrait to explore classical topics: self-knowledge and knowledge of the self, the ethics and obligations of friendship, the relation of the passions to happiness. The second half focuses on topics that relate directly to women's lifeworld: the critique of the institution of marriage, the status of older women, and the question of women's nature and capabilities. Each chapter traces the evolution of women's moralist thought from the late seventeenth century to the Enlightenment and the decades immediately following the French Revolution, a period of tremendous change in the horizon of possibilities for women as public figures and intellectuals"--