A Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France
-Aissance and Labor
-The Intelligence of Women
Chapter 2. Poullain de la Barre: Feminism, Radical and Polite
-Conversion
-The Mind Has No Sex
-Cartesianism for Ladies
Chapter 3. Malebranche and the Bel Esprit
-Montaigne's Sin of Style
-The Cartesian Augustinian
-Original Sin and the Labor of Attention
-The Bel Esprit
-The Author Despite Himself
Chapter 4. Love, Gallantry, and Friendship
-The Loves and Friendships of Saint-Évremond
-The Dissent of Mme de Lambert
Chapter 5. Shaftesbury's Quest for Fraternity
-The Turn to Stoicism
-The French Menace
-Friendship
- Critics, Markets, and Labor
-The Moralists
Chapter 6. The Labors of David Hume
-Writing the Treatise
-The Essayist
-The Vicissitudes of Taste
-The Philosopher and the Countess
Chapter 7. Genius and the Social: Antoine-LÉonard Thomas and Suzanne
Curchod Necker
-Friends
-Amphibians
-The Labor of Genius
-Gallantry Corrupted
Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay
-Diderot's Paternal Voice
-Diderot's Clinical Voice
-Mme d'Épinay's Feminism
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
