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- Focuses on the connections between female philosophical and scientific thought in Italy and Europe
- Highlights the gender relations in the early modern period
- Broadens our understanding of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy and science
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 4)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Women Philosophers and the Classical Inheritance
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Front Matter
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Women Philosophers and the New Philosophy of Nature
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women’s philosophical, moral, political and scientific ideas in Italy and early modern Europe. Divided into three sections, it starts by discussing the women philosophers’ engagement with the classical inheritance with regard to the works of Moderata Fonte, Tullia d'Aragona and Anne Conway. The next section examines the relationship between women philosophers and the new philosophy of nature, focusing on the connections between female thought and the new seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science, and discussing the work of Camilla Erculiani, Margherita Sarocchi, Margaret Cavendish, Mariangela Ardinghelli, Teresa Ciceri, Candida Lena Perpenti, and Alessandro Volta. The final section presents male philosophers’ perspectives on the role of women, discussing the place of women in the work of Giordano Bruno, Poulain de la Barre and the theories of Hobbes and Rawls. By exploring these women philosophers, writers andtranslators, the book offers a re-examination of the early modern thinking of and about women in Italy.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Philosophy, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
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Philosophy, Department of Humanities, University of Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
Gianni Paganini
About the editors
Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale), fellow of the Research Center of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), edited the first atheist clandestine manuscript: Theophrastus redivivus (1659), 2 vols, Florence, LaNuova Italia, 1981–1982. He is also the author of Skepsis. Le Débat des modernes sur le scepticisme, Paris, Vrin, 2008, published by the Académie Française. In 2010, he won a prize for his work in philosophy, awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome). His current research focuses on 17th century philosophy (Hobbes, clandestine philosophy, history of early modern skepticism) and the Enlightenment (the connections between Hume and Diderot). He has edited works by Voltaire (Zadig), Hume (Dialog Concerning Natural Religion) and Hobbes (De motu, loco et tempore).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Philosophy and Science
Book Subtitle: Italy and Early Modern Europe
Editors: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Gianni Paganini
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44548-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44547-8Published: 09 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44550-8Published: 09 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44548-5Published: 08 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science