The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures (Intellectual History of the Modern Age)

Cover
Contents
A Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France
	Aisance 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
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Acknowledgments