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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967951003321

Autore

Broad Jacqueline

Titolo

Women philosophers of the seventeenth century / / Jacqueline Broad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12563-4

1-280-43400-7

0-511-17740-2

0-511-04237-X

0-511-14773-2

0-511-30499-4

0-511-48712-6

0-511-04540-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

190/.82/09032

Soggetti

Women philosophers

Philosophy, Modern - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Elizabeth of Bohemia -- Margaret Cavendish -- Anne Conway -- Mary Astell -- Damaris Masham -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn.

Sommario/riassunto

In this rich and detailed study of early modern women's thought, Jacqueline Broad explores the complexity of women's responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and Europe. She examines the work of thinkers such as Mary Astell, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway and Damaris Masham, who were active participants in the intellectual life of their time and were also the respected colleagues of philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz and Locke. She also illuminates the continuities between early modern women's thought and the anti-dualism of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad's clear and accessible exploration of this still-unfamiliar area will have a strong appeal to both students and scholars in the history of philosophy,



women's studies and the history of ideas.