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  title info:
    title: Women moralists in early modern France
  name:
    name part: Hayes, Julie Candler
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 284 pages ; 25 cm.
  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.
  note: Julie Candler Hayes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Ethicists
    geographic: France
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers
    geographic: France
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Intellectuals
    geographic: France
    topic: History
  classification: BJ702 .H394 2024
  classification: 170.944
  identifier: 9780197688601
  identifier: 0197688608
  identifier: 9780197688625
  identifier: 9780197688632
  identifier: 2023019557
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230422
    record change date: 20240918135402.7
    record identifier: in00004772095