The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman

Andrew Janiak

2024

Oxford University Press

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Andrew Janiak provides a new history of the birth of modern philosophy and shows how Émilie Du Châtelet played a key role in the early development of the Enlightenment. The book chronicles how the most famous writers of the era, including Diderot, Voltaire and Kant, sought to disrupt Du Châtelet's influence, and also how she fought back and sheds light on the deliberate erasure of a key female thinker of the Enlightenment era.