this collection is an indispensable resource

Kelin Emmett, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

The authors present a wide variety of perspectives on a group of texts which emerged at a time when questions that still occupy us today were articulated for the first time. ... Particularly in the closing contributions of the editors, but also in the general framework of the book, the philosophy of Wollstonecraft is presented in the context of current discussions, from a feminist as well as from a general political perspective. The collection abandons the schemata of fruitless one-dimensional interpretations that position Wollstonecraft as either a proto-feminist or a rationalist misogynist. ... It confirms Wollstonecraft as an inspirational writer of the Enlightenment period whose ideas sketch out future concepts, the relevance of which scholars are only beginning to discover.

Ruth Hagengruber, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning. Intense research is underway to recover their works which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long been studied by feminists, and later discovered by political scientists, philosophers themselves have only recently begun to recognise the value of her work for their discipline. This volume brings together new essays from leading scholars, which explore Wollstonecraft's range as a moral and political philosopher of note, both taking a historical perspective and applying her thinking to current academic debates. Subjects include Wollstonecraft's ideas on love and respect, friendship and marriage, motherhood, property in the person, and virtue and the emotions, as well as the application her thought has for current thinking on relational autonomy, and animal and children's rights. A major theme within the book places her within the republican tradition of political theory and analyses the contribution she makes to its conceptual resources.
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The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft brings together new essays from leading scholars, which explore Wollstonecraft's range as a moral and political philosopher of note, taking both a historical perspective and applying her thinking to current academic debates.
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Introduction 1: Sylvana Tomaselli: Reflections on Inequality, Respect and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft 2: Nancy Kendrick: Mary Wollstonecraft on Marriage as Virtue Friendship 3: Martina Reuter: The Role of Passions in Mary Wollstonecraft s Concept of Virtue 4: Catriona Mackenzie: Mary Wollstonecraft: an Early Relational Autonomy Theorista? 5: Eileen Hunt Botting: Mary Wollstonecraft, Children s Human Rights and Animal Ethics 6: Laura Brace: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Properties of (Anti) Slavery 7: Philip Pettit: Republican Elements in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft 8: Susan James: Mary Wollstonecraft s Conception of Rights 9: Lena Halldenius: Constitutional and Political Representation in Mary Wollstonecraft s Philosophy 10: Alan Coffee: Mary Wollstonecraft, Public Reason and the Virtuous Republic 11: Sandrine Bergès: Wet-nurses and Political Participation: the Republican Approaches to Motherhood of Mary Wollstonecraft and Sophie de Grouchy 12: Barbara Taylor: Mary Wollstonecraft and Modern Philosophy
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The first collection of Mary Wollstonecraft's political philosophy Contributions from major political philosophers Explores Wollstonecraft's impact on rebublicanism and other central topics in political philosophy
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Sandrine Bergès is a philosopher working at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests are in Ancient moral and political philosophy, feminist history of philosophy, and feminist ethics. She has published three books: Plato, Virtue and the Law (2009), Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and, A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics (2015).; Alan Coffee is a philosopher working at King's College London. His research interests are in social and political philosophy, particularly in the areas of freedom, equality and global justice. His special interest is in recovering the political philosophy contained in women's writing in the eighteenth century and in slave narratives in the nineteenth century.
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The first collection of Mary Wollstonecraft's political philosophy Contributions from major political philosophers Explores Wollstonecraft's impact on rebublicanism and other central topics in political philosophy
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198766841
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
532 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
168 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
262

Biografisk notat

Sandrine Bergès is a philosopher working at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests are in Ancient moral and political philosophy, feminist history of philosophy, and feminist ethics. She has published three books: Plato, Virtue and the Law (2009), Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and, A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics (2015).; Alan Coffee is a philosopher working at King's College London. His research interests are in social and political philosophy, particularly in the areas of freedom, equality and global justice. His special interest is in recovering the political philosophy contained in women's writing in the eighteenth century and in slave narratives in the nineteenth century.