philosophers, Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), and Sophie de Grouchy (1764–1822), who were engaged in efforts at reform that were centered on liberty: it may have seemed to them that they themselves might be liberated through reform. Moreover, while Mary Astell and her contemporaries predicate their arguments about liberty on the idea that women have equal rational capacity to men, François Poulain de la Barre (1648–1723), for instance, had to assert and defend such equality before he could begin to argue for liberty through the development of reason. All this would make for a nice and optimistic account of the historical development of women’s freedom and the way in which it became gradually more accepted, if it were not for a chilling passage from Benjamin Constant, written at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which Broad and Detlefsen quote in their introduction (1). Women, Constant suggests, are left out of discourses on liberty because they are to some extent incapable of it, being tyrannized by their own nature. Women philosophers may have come a long way between 1700 and 1800, but this does not mean that their male counterparts did. What this book does, and which was sorely needed, is show that there was an evolving discourse by women, and that it is high time we took it seriously. The editors offer the book as evidence that early modern women philosophers deserve a place in the canon, that they deserve to be researched and taught, alongside male authors. Does this work? In a sense, the proof is in the pudding, and this book is a pudding taster, encouraging readers to find out more about these women philosophers, to read their texts and engage with them. S a n d r i n e B e r g è s

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形而上学的早期现代女性编辑。通过艾米丽·托马斯

哲学家凯瑟琳·麦考利 (1731-1791)、玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特 (1759-1797) 和索菲·德·格鲁希 (1764-1822)，他们致力于以自由为中心的改革：在他们看来，他们自己可以通过改革解放。此外，虽然玛丽·阿斯特尔 (Mary Astell) 和她的同时代人将他们关于自由的论点基于女性与男性具有同等的理性能力这一观点，但例如，弗朗索瓦·普兰·德拉巴雷 (François Poulain de la Barre，1648-1723 年) 不得不在他开始之前主张和捍卫这种平等通过理性的发展来争取自由。如果不是本杰明·康斯坦 (Benjamin Constant) 的一段令人不寒而栗的段落，所有这些都将为女性自由的历史发展及其逐渐被接受的方式提供一个美好而乐观的描述，写于 19 世纪初，Broad 和 Detlefsen 在他们的介绍中引用 (1)。康斯坦斯认为，女性被排除在自由讨论之外，因为她们在某种程度上无法实现自由，她们被自己的本性所压制。女性哲学家可能在 1700 年到 1800 年之间取得了长足的进步，但这并不意味着她们的男性哲学家也做到了。这本书所做的，也是迫切需要的，表明女性的话语正在不断发展，现在是我们认真对待它的时候了。编辑们提供这本书作为证据，证明早期现代女性哲学家应该在经典中占有一席之地，她们应该与男性作者一起被研究和教授。这行得通吗？从某种意义上说，证明就在布丁里，而这本书是布丁品尝师，鼓励读者更多地了解这些女哲学家，阅读她们的文章并与她们互动。S andrine Bergès