Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they
wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these
important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon
and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to
put them back on the map. It introduces twelve women philosophers -
Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances
Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby,
Arabella Buckley, Annie Besant, Vernon Lee, and Constance Naden.
Alison Stone looks at their views on naturalism, philosophy of mind,
evolution, morality and religion, and progress in history. She shows
how these women interacted and developed their philosophical views in
conversation with one another, not only with their male
contemporaries. The rich print and periodical culture of the period
enabled these women to publish philosophy in forms accessible to a
general readership, despite the restrictions women faced, such as
having limited or no access to university education. Stone explains
how these women became excluded from the history of philosophy because
there was a cultural shift at the end of the nineteenth century
towards specialised forms of philosophical writing, which depended on
academic credentials that were still largely unavailable to women.
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ISBN
9780192874801
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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