Women philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : new studies
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Women philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : new studies
Routledge, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of essays presents new work on women's contribution to philosophy between the Renaissance and the mid-eighteenth century. They bring a new perspective to the history of philosophy, by highlighting women's contributions to philosophy and testifying to the rich history of women's thought in this period.
By showing that women were active in many branches of philosophy (metaphysics, science, political philosophy cosmology, ontology, epistemology) the book testifies to the rich history of women's thought across Europe in this period. The scope of the collection is international, both in terms of the philosophers represented and the contributors themselves from Britain and North America, but also from continental Europe and from as far afield as Australia and Brazil. The philosophers discussed here include both figures who have recently come to be better known (Elisabeth of Bohemia, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Emilie du Chatelet), and less familiar figures (Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella Arcangela Tarabotti, Tullia d'Aragona, Madame Deshoulieres, Madame de Sable, Angelique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, Oliva Sabuco, Susanna Newcome).
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction: New Perspectives on Women Philosophers 1. Women, philosophy and the history of philosophy 2. Leone Ebreo in Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo. Between Varchi's legacy and philosophical autonomy 3. Patriarchal power as unjust: tyranny in seventeenth-century Venice 4. Oliva Sabuco de Nantes and her Nueva Filosofia: a new philosophy of human nature and the interaction between mind and body 5. Elisabeth of Bohemia's Neo-Peripatetic account of the emotions 6. Monism and individuation in Anne Conway as a critique of Spinoza 7. Tutor, salon, convent: the formation of women philosophers in early modern France 8. Mary Astell's critique of Pierre Bayle: atheism and intellectual integrity in the Pensees (1682) 9. On some footnotes to Catharine Trotter Cockburn's Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding 10. Susanna Newcome's cosmological argument 11. 'Mon petit essai': Emilie du Chatelet's Essai sur l'optique and her early natural philosophy
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