Sandrine Bergès

Liberty in Their Names (eBook, PDF)

The Women Philosophers of the French Revolution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Telling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality and social justice, before the French Revolution. As they became engaged in its efforts, their political writing became more urgent. At a time when women could neither vote nor speak at the Assembly, they became influential through their writings. Yet instead of Gouges, Grouchy and Roland, we speak of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot.

Sandrine Bergès examines the lives and writings of these trailblazing women philosophers, and their impact on philosophical thought during the French Revolution. Featuring pictures, a timeline and a bibliography of their works, this book offers exciting new insights into the history of political philosophy and of the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350227149
• Artikelnr.: 65450587

Autorenporträt

Sandrine Bergès is Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and co-editor of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2018), Women Philosophers on Autonomy (2018). She is the translator of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Foreword Timeline of the French Revolution Glossary
of People and Places 1. Women in the Revolution 2. The Women and the
Prisons: A Walk-Through 18th-Century Paris 3. Awakening to Injustice: The
Formative Years of Gouges, Roland and Grouchy 4. Making her own Way: Olympe
de Gouges 5. Speaking for Herself: Marie-Jeanne Roland 6. Working Together:
Sophie de Grouchy 7. The Women on the Other Side of the Channel 8. The
American Dream: From Republican model to Asylum of Freedom 9. The
Abolitionist Movement and the Revolution 10. Women in the City Epilogue:
Writing out the Women: Sophie de Grouchy After the Terror A Revolutionary
Bookshelf Notes Bibliography Index