Francois Poulain De La Barre and the Modern Equality

Informationen zum Autor Siep Stuurman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Klappentext This groundbreaking work is the first comprehensive study of Poulain! a dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne who embraced the philosophy of Descartes! became convinced of the injustice and absurdity of the subjection of women! and assembled an entirely original social philosophy. His writings challenging male supremacy and advocating gender and racial equality are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French Revolution. Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive study of Poulain, a dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne who embraced the philosophy of Descartes, decried the injustice and absurdity of women’s subjection, and assembled an original social philosophy. His writings are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Siep Stuurman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9780674011854
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01185-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries