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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

By: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

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By: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

This book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of one of the most important texts of the Enlightenment.

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The Labor of the Mind

Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures

By: Anthony J. La Vopa

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The Labor of the Mind

Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures

By: Anthony J. La Vopa

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish the "manly mind" from the feminine mind? How did awareness of these questions inform various kinds of published and unpublished texts, including the philosophical treatise, the dialogue, the polite essay, and the essay in literary criticism? The Labor of the Mind plumbs the social and cultural logic of the Enlightenment's trope of the manly mind; offers new readings of the textual representations of it; and examines the ways in which the trope was subverted or at least subtly questioned. With close readings of the writings of well-known and less familiar men and women, including Poullain de la Barre, The Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Madeleine de Scudéry, David Hume, Antoine-Léonard Thomas, Suzanne Curchod Necker, Denis Diderot, and Louise d'Epinay, and tracing their social networks and friendships, Anthony J. La Vopa explores the problematic opposition between mental labor as concentrated and sustained work, a labor of abstraction and judgment for which only men had the strength, and an aesthetic of effortless and tasteful play in polite conversation in which women were thought to excel. Covering nearly a century and a half of cultural and intellectual life from France to England and Scotland and then back again, La Vopa locates, beneath the tenacity of assumed natural differences, a lexicon imbued with ambivalence, ambiguity, and argument. The Labor of the Mind reveals the legacy for modernity of a fraught gendering of intellectual labor.

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The Labor of the Mind

Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures

By: Anthony J. LaVopa

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Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures

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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.

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Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

By: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

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Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

By: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. This is the first new edition of Characteristicks as a coherent collection for almost a century. A substantial Introduction discusses Shaftesbury's works and ideas in the context of his times, and traces the reception and influence of his writings through the eighteenth century and beyond.

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Oxford University Press

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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

By: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

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This book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of one of the most important texts of the Enlightenment.

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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

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The Labor of the Mind

The Labor of the Mind

The Labor of the Mind

The Labor of the Mind

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

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