MHIS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Wollstonecraft, Michel De Montaigne, Paneuropean Union
22 Aug 2018
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C and continues on through the 18th c: conservation is about the entirety human experience. Knowledge becomes a disposable, consumer item: montaigne has library of 271 books at end of 16th c. has read them very often, montisque"s personal library contains 3000 books. Can"t know more than a handful by heart. Literate reading public; collection of private individuals who are consuming knowledge and ideas: reading the latest ideas and knowledge. The modern public limitations: creation of the modern public. Mhis121: women excluded, by 18th c, physical differences are accepted but now that is the reason for their discrimination. Different = inferiority: women we assoc. with the e like mary wollstonecraft react against the exclusion of women from. Demand the entry of women into this conversation: non-europeans are also excluded, white, male, middle to upper class. Tension between power and information: once you have a literate public, they can express opinions.
