:<i>Preface to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne by His Adoptive Daughter, Marie le
          Jars de Gournay</i>

Ferguson, Gary; Gournay, Marie le Jars de; Hillman, Richard; Quesnel, Colette

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“…Her first major publication, The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne (1594/2002a), is a work of fiction, which concerns how gender inequality is weaponized against women via practices of wooing and marriage. As the editor of posthumous editions of Montaigne's Essays , she published an extensive preface to the 1595 edition of the Essays (Ilsley 1963; Gournay 1998; cf. Montaigne 1958).…”

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“…. to truly restore him to a new appearance of life by the continuation of the friendship that be bore me” (Gournay 1998, 31; cf. Deslauriers 2008, Horowitz 1986).…”

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“…Deslauriers 2008, Horowitz 1986). In this preface, Gournay begins to make some of the arguments about women's inequality—and, specifically, her own mistreatment despite her affiliation with Montaigne—which she later published in her more obviously feminist works, which include The Equality of Men and Women, The Ladies' Complaint , and Apology for the Woman Writing (1641) (Gournay 1998, 2002b, 2013a, 2013b; cf. O'Neill 2011).…”

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Prejudice as Viciousness: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo

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2023

The Southern J of Philosophy

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Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo, though thinking and writing in different social contexts, each offer an account of prejudice which bears a deep philosophical resonance to that of the other. This resonance is striking and mutually illuminating: Gournay and Amo develop a view of prejudice as a kind of epistemic and moral viciousness that damages both the prejudicial person and their socio‐epistemic neighbors. Their accounts highlight how agents are rightly held responsible for prejudice, as it is the agents' epistemic negligence and moral failure that allows prejudice to take hold. As such, their view offers a balance between a critical examination of individuals and an acknowledgement of the deep sociality that pervades the epistemic domain.

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“…. to truly restore him to a new appearance of life by the continuation of the friendship that be bore me” (Gournay 1998, 31; cf. Deslauriers 2008, Horowitz 1986).…”

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Prejudice as Viciousness: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo

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Montaigne and the Comic: Exposing Private Life

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2011

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Between men of action, men of words, and men—like the philosophers—who find themselves curiously in between, Montaigne would ideally write like Epicurus and Seneca, in a style that unites his actions with his words. This union of "doings" and "sayings," of doctrine and daily activity, is also what Montaigne refers to as the wisdom of the philosophers. His new form of wisdom in the Essays unites his sayings and doings, but without losing touch with the paradox of making the private public, and the inevitability of being judged comic in his time for exposing his private life.

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:Preface to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne by His Adoptive Daughter, Marie le Jars de Gournay

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