Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Literary Criticism - 253 pages
Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of 16th- and 17th-century France, this study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. It challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth.

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Contents

Jean Bodins Torturous Hermeneutics
53
Guillaume du Vair and André du Laurens
97
Michel de Montaignes Lame Lovers
141
Cartesian Rationalism Reconsidered
183
Conclusion
223
Index
245
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Rebecca M. Wilkin is Assistant Professor of French at the Pacific Lutheran University, USA.

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