Book contents
- The Cambridge History of French Thought
- The Cambridge History of French Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Middle Ages to 1789
- 1 Medieval French Thought
- 2 Humanist Culture in Renaissance France
- 3 Reformers and Dissidents
- 4 Rabelais
- 5 Moral Theories: Aristotelianism and neo-Stoicism
- 6 Pyrrhonism
- 7 Ramus
- 8 Montaigne
- 9 Demonology
- 10 Political and Legal Thought
- 11 Linguistic and Literary Thought: Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries
- 12 French Scholastics in the Seventeenth Century
- 13 Sceptics and Free-thinkers
- 14 Descartes
- 15 Augustinianism
- 16 Seventeenth-Century Catholic Spirituality
- 17 Blaise Pascal
- 18 Cartesianism
- 19 Pierre Bayle
- 20 Ethical, Political and Social Thought
- 21 Aesthetics: Ancients and Moderns
- 22 The Querelle des femmes
- 23 The Enlightenment
- 24 Voltaire
- 25 Diderot
- 26 Rousseau
- 27 Philosophy and Religion: Deism, Materialism, Atheism
- 28 Enlightenment Political and Social Thought
- 29 The Continent of History
- 30 Enlightenment Aesthetic Thought
- 31 The Enlightenment and Gender
- 32 Colonialism and Slavery
- Part II From 1789 to the Present Day
- Conclusion: The End of French Thought?
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Part I - The Middle Ages to 1789
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2019
- The Cambridge History of French Thought
- The Cambridge History of French Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Middle Ages to 1789
- 1 Medieval French Thought
- 2 Humanist Culture in Renaissance France
- 3 Reformers and Dissidents
- 4 Rabelais
- 5 Moral Theories: Aristotelianism and neo-Stoicism
- 6 Pyrrhonism
- 7 Ramus
- 8 Montaigne
- 9 Demonology
- 10 Political and Legal Thought
- 11 Linguistic and Literary Thought: Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries
- 12 French Scholastics in the Seventeenth Century
- 13 Sceptics and Free-thinkers
- 14 Descartes
- 15 Augustinianism
- 16 Seventeenth-Century Catholic Spirituality
- 17 Blaise Pascal
- 18 Cartesianism
- 19 Pierre Bayle
- 20 Ethical, Political and Social Thought
- 21 Aesthetics: Ancients and Moderns
- 22 The Querelle des femmes
- 23 The Enlightenment
- 24 Voltaire
- 25 Diderot
- 26 Rousseau
- 27 Philosophy and Religion: Deism, Materialism, Atheism
- 28 Enlightenment Political and Social Thought
- 29 The Continent of History
- 30 Enlightenment Aesthetic Thought
- 31 The Enlightenment and Gender
- 32 Colonialism and Slavery
- Part II From 1789 to the Present Day
- Conclusion: The End of French Thought?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of French Thought , pp. 209 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019