Subject Guides: Philosophy: 17th-19th Centuries

17th-19th Centuries

Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
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Library of Latin Texts Cross Database Searchtool This link opens in a new window
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Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker im WWW This link opens in a new window
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European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) Collection of Historical Sources on Philosophy
Project Vox (Duke)
- Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Era
Women Intellectuals of 18th Century Germany While much of German intellectual life in the 18th century was driven by the university (and the men who held academic positions there), women contributed in a number of crucial ways to the contemporary intellectual culture. While some exercised an indirect influence through the organization of the popular literary salons, a number were able to establish themselves as important scholars, translators, and popularizers, some through drawing on their connections to prominent male relations, and still others actively sought to break down the barriers facing women in academia. Though they are largely excluded from the Enlightenment canon, and suffer from a lack of attention even in comparison with their French and British counterparts (with few of their works translated into English), the works catalogued in this database are certainly deserving of wider philosophical consideration, as indeed the history of 18th century Germany thought cannot be told without acknowledging the key roles that these women played.