ENN New Voices: Marie de Gournay’s Life and Philosophy: Interview with Anik Waldow

In this episode, Mary Purcell talks with Anik Waldow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Professor Waldow introduces Marie de Gournay, a French philosopher and writer at the end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century. They discuss Gournay’s emphasis on the importance of alliances in the pursuit of personal flourishing as well as her views on the relationship between reason and virtue, self-identity, and intellectual courage. 

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Works mentioned in the episode:

Gournay, Marie de. Égalité des hommes et des femmes. Paris, 1622. Reprint, Paris: Honoré Champion, 1910. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3142288.image.

———–––. Grief des dames. 1610. Reprint, Paris: Honoré Champion, 1910. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Grief_des_dames.

———–––. “Préface des Essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne" (1635). In Les Essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne: Nouvelle édition exactement purgée des défauts des precedentes, selon le vray original, et enrichie & augmentée aux marges du nom des autheurs qui y sont citez, & de la version de leurs passages…, by Michel de Montaigne. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1652. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k580587/f9.