Époque Émilienne : philosophy and science in the age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)
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Époque Émilienne : philosophy and science in the age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)
（Women in the history of philosophy and sciences / series editors, Ruth Hagengruber, Mary Ellen Waithe, Gianenrico Paganini, 11）
Springer, c2022
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The present book contextualizes Du Chatelet's contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emiliennee as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelet's powerful philosophy and legacy.
Du Chatelet was an outstanding figure in the era she lived in. Her work and achievements were unique, though not an exception in the 18th century, which did not lack outstanding women. Her personal intellectual education, her scholarly network and her mental acumen were celebrated in her time, perceiving her to have "multiplied nine figures by nine figures in her head". She was able to gain access to institutions which were normally denied to women. To call an epoch an Epoque Emilienne may be seen as daring and audacious, but it will not be the last time if we continue to bring women philosophers back into the memory of the history of philosophy.
The contributors paid attention to the philosophical state of the art, which forms the background to Du Chatelet's philosophy. They follow the transformation of philosophical concepts under her pen and retrace the impact of her ideas.
The book is of interest to scholars working in the history of philosophy as well as in gender studies. It is of special interest for scholars working on the 18th century, Kant, Leibniz, Wolff, Newton and the European Enlightenment.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Part 1: Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Kant.- Chapter 1. Emilie Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Kant. Eberhard and the Transcendental Turn (Ruth Hagengruber).- Chapter 2. The Significance of Du Chatelet's Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces (Katherine Dunlop).- Chapter 3. Du Chatelet's Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant (Clara Carus).- Chapter 4. The Reception of Emilie Du Chatelet in the German Enlightenment in the Light of the Controversy over Monads (Andrea Reichenberger).- Chapter 5. Emilie du Chatelet in the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel (Hanns-Peter Neumann).- Part 2:Methodical Questions: Du Chatelet Between Leibniz and Newton.- Chapter 6. Three French Newtonians and their Leibniz Background (Hartmut Hecht).- Chapter 7. Les corps agissent sur la lumiere." Emilie Du Chatelet's Deliberations on the Nature of Light in her Essai sur l'optique (Fritz Nagel).- Chapter 8. Emilie Du Chatelet's Epistemology of Hypotheses (Gianni Paganini).- Chapter 9. Emilie Du Chatelet's Institutions physiques considered as a philosophy of science based on the history of science (Dieter Suisky).- Chapter 10. Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World - Emilie Du Chatelet on Causation (Ansgar Lyssi).- Chapter 11. Du Chatelet on Newtonian Attraction (Marco Storni).- Part 3: Du Chatelet and Newton.- Chapter 12. Making Scientific Theories: Emilie Du Chatelet's Circle and the Newtonian "Revolution" (Robyn Arianrhod).- Chapter 13. Emilie Du Chatelet and Newton's Principia (Michel Toulmonde).- Chapter 14. Du Chatelet's Commentary on Newton's Principia: An Assessment (George Smith).- Part 4: Du Chatelet in Italy.- Chapter 15. Emilie Du Chatelet and Italy. The Italian translation of Emilie Du Chatelet's Institutions physiques in intellectual context (Sarah Hutton).- Chapter 16. Du Chatelet in Italy: Who was behind Du Chatelet's Italian Translation? (Romana Bassi).- Part 5: Du Chatelet in France.- Chapter 17. "Anonymity and Ambition": Emilie Du Chatelet's Dissertation du feu (1744) (Keiko Kawashima).- Chapter 18. "D'une marquise l'autre. Mme Du Chatelet et les Enretiens sur la pluralite des mondes de Fontenelle" (Christophe Martin).- Chapter 19. Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and Emilie Du Chatelet on Love (Gabor Boros).- Chapter 20. Emilie Du Chatelet and La Mettrie (Anne Thomson).- Chapter 21. Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis's Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic (Waltraud Ernst).- Chapter 22. The Influence of Epicurean thought on Mme Du Chatelet's Discours sur le Bonheur (Alexsandra Gierault).- Chapter 23. Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Chatelet's Challenge (Andreas Blank).- Chapter 24. Mme Du Chatelet, Clandestine Philosopher (Susan 24. Seguin).- Chapter 25. Mme Du Chatelet, a heterodox philosopher reads the Bible (Bertram Schwarzbach).- Part 6: Du Chatelet: Manuscript and Editing History.- Chapter 26. Les manuscrits d'Emilie Du Chatelet conserves a la Bibliotheque nationale de Russie (Natalia Speranskaja).- Chapter 27. Printing Du Chatelet's Institutions de Physique: The Variant Texts (Ronald Smelzer).- List of abbreviations.
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