Hagengruber R.E. (ed.) Époque Émilienne: Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Springer, 2022. — 555 p. — (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 11). — ISBN 978-3-030-89920-2.The present book contextualizes Du Châtelet’s contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Époque Émilienne as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Châtelet’s powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Châtelet 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 Époque Émilienne 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 Châtelet’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.An Introduction to the Volume
Émilie Du Châtelet’s Epistemology of Hypotheses
Du Châtelet and Kant: Claiming the Renewal of Philosophy
The Significance of Du Châtelet’s Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces
Du Châtelet’s Contribution to the Concept of Time. History of Philosophy Between Leibniz and Kant
The Reception of Émilie Du Châtelet in the German Enlightenment
Émilie Du Châtelet Within the Correspondence Between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph of Manteuffel
Three French Newtonians and Their Leibnizian Background
Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World—Émilie Du Châtelet on Causation
“Les Corps Agissent Sur La Lumière.” Émilie Du Châtelet’s Deliberations on the Nature of Light in Her Essai Sur l’optique
Émilie Du Châtelet and Newton’s Principia
Du Châtelet’s Commentary on Newton’s Principia: An Assessment
Émilie Du Châtelet and Italy. The Italian Translation of Her Institutions Physiques and the Issue of the Forces Vives
Émilie Du Châtelet and Antonio Conti. The Italian Translation of the Institutions Physiques
Scientia Sexualis: Voltaire, La Mettrie and Du Châtelet on Love
Natural Pleasure: Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis’s Contribution to a Materialist Conception of the Erotic
Émilie Du Châtelet and La Mettrie
Self-Deception and Illusions of Esteem: Contextualizing Du Châtelet’s Challenge
From One Marquise to Another. Émilie Du Châtelet and Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds’
Anonymity and Ambition: Émilie Du Châtelet’s Dissertation du feu (1744)
Madame Du Châtelet, Clandestine Philosopher
Mme Du Châtelet, a Heterodox Philosopher Reads the Bible
Émilie Du Châtelet’s Manuscripts Preserved at the National Library of Russia
Printing Du Châtelet’s Institutions De Physique: The Variant Texts