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François Poulain de la Barre and the invention of modern equality
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ISBN: 9780674011854 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,

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"In a tour de force of intellectual history, Siep Stuurman rediscovers the remarkable early Enlightenment figure Francois de Poulain de la Barre. A dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne, Poulain embraced the philosophy of Descartes, became convinced of the injustice and absurdity of the subjection of women, and assembled an entirely original social philosophy. "In exploring Poulain's breakthrough, Stuurman sheds new light on the origins of the Enlightenment, the history of feminism, the emergence of rational Christianity, and the social and political implications of Descartes's philosophy. This work, the first comprehensive study of Poulain, brings to life the men and women of the Radical Enlightenment, who pioneered ideas about equality that would shape humankind to this day."--Jacket. 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."


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