18th and 19th centuries - French Field Examination - Research Guide - Research Guides at University of Southern California

Cambridge Core (Chapters in Books) - 18th Century

Denis Diderot
Many links
Early Modern Philosophy, 1600-1750
Downloadable PDF - This article is limited to philosophers who published or wrote most of their major works between 1600 and 1750, thus including Hume and Condillac but omitting near-contemporaries like Rousseau. Included are: Descartes, La Mettrie, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.
Erotic, Obscene, and Pornographic Writing, 1660-1900
Comprehensive listing of research on this topic
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Three links to Rousseau: Music, Philosophy, and Political Thought.
Julien de La Mettrie
"The scientific challenge to economic philosophy, I Physicalism and the birth of the ‘man–machine’ doctrine: La Mettrie." Downloadable PDF of Chap. 2 of Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change, by Eduardo Giannetti Da Fonseca, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Montesquieu (I)
Comprehensive listing of research on this topic
Montesquieu (II)
Several links
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Several links
Françoise de Graffigny
"From the marquise de Lambert to Françoise de Graffigny: the ideology of the salons." Downloadable PDF of Chap. 3 of: A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800. by Karen Green. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Sade
Several links.
Voltaire
Links to many chapters