The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet
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The first scholarly volume on Émilie Du Châtelet's philosophy highlights her novel contributions to metaphysics, philosophy of science, and ethics.
As an understudied figure in the history of early modern philosophy, this volume re-positions her thinking alongside philosophical predecessors like Leibniz, Newton, Wolff, and Voltaire, as well as considering her own influence in the decades and centuries after her death.
Established and emerging scholars of early modern philosophy cover all aspects of Du Châtelet's philosophical work including her metaphysical views on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, the Principle of Contradiction, and natural theology, as well as her writings on epistemology, space and time, philosophy of mathematics, freedom, imagination and happiness. By positioning Du Châtelet firmly within the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science, Fatema Amijee's edited volume contributes to the renewed scholarly attention on early modern women philosophers. Essential reading for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy, this go-to text on Du Châtelet marks a new era of scholarly attention for a formerly neglected figure.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia, Canada)
2. The Primacy of Reason: Contextualizing Du Châtelet's Examens de la Bible, Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Blazing: Du Châtelet as Central to the First Paradigm in Newtonian Mechanics, Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
4. Émilie Du Châtelet's Principle of Contradiction, Clara Carus (Paderborn University, Germany)
5. Du Châtelet's First Cosmological Argument, Stephen Harrop (Yale University, USA)
6. Emilie Du Châtelet and Isaac Newton, Sarah Hutton (University of York, UK)
7. Émilie Du Châtelet's “On Liberty” and the Influence of Locke, Marcy P. Lascano (University of Kansas, USA)
8. Du Châtelet's Epistemology of Space, Qiu Lin (Duke University, USA)
9. Émilie Du Châtelet Against Spatial Metaphysics, Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University, USA)
10. Du Châtelet's Philosophy of Mathematics, Aaron Wells (Paderborn University, Germany)
11. Experimenting with Metaphysics: Du Chatelet's Dissertation on Fire, Michael Veldman (Hamilton College, USA)
Annotated Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 22 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350343061 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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