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Émile Du Châtelet and her "Examens de la Bible": a radical clandestine woman philosopher

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Émilie Du Châtelet is the only French woman author of a work included in the corpus of clandestine philosophical literature: a set of treatises, dissertations, or letters that circulated in Europe, and especially in France, mainly in manuscript form, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the main purpose of which was to subject religion to rigorous rational criticism (philosophical, historical, scientific). These Examens de la religion, one of the most controversial works in this corpus, circulated during the eighteenth century and gave rise to a form of legend: sometimes said to be the work of Émilie Du Châtelet, sometimes the result of a form of collaboration between Du Châtelet and the one whose life she shared for a long time: Voltaire. If the feminine point of view on the Bible played a role in the recent attribution of this text to Émilie Du Châtelet, the existence of a properly feminine writing in the wider context of clandestine philosophical literature can now be discussed. This article aims to put this debate into perspective, at both the methodological and philosophical level.
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Maria-Susana Seguin. Émile Du Châtelet and her "Examens de la Bible": a radical clandestine woman philosopher. Intellectual History Review, 2021, Women and Radical Thought in the Early Modern Period, 31 (1), pp.129-141. ⟨10.1080/17496977.2021.1874105⟩. ⟨halshs-02329809⟩
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