Overview
Makes a significant contribution to the creation of a critical history of the philosophy of gender
Gives an account the recovery and re-evaluation of women's philosophical writing since Christine de Pizan
Introduces newly recovered female figures in history of philosophy of gender, and history of feminist social and political philosophy
Brings together the work of an international group of leading historians of philosophy and political thought
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The History of Metaphysics, Epistemology and Natural Philosophy
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The History of Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind
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The History of Social and Political Philosophy
Keywords
- Methodology Behind Anne Conway's Principles
- epistemological thought of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- du Châtelet on Hypothesis and Metaphysics in Science
- Mary Shepherd on Causality and Causal Reasoning
- Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Cartesian Mind
- Marie Thiroux D’Arconville on Passion and Virtue
- Simone de Beauvoir on the Self-Other Dialectic
- Madeleine de Scudéry on the Self-Other Dialectic
- Sophie de Grouchy on Reason and Feeling
- George Eliot and Literature as Experimental Philosophy
- Christine de Pizan and the origin of feminism
- Marie de Gournay and Aristotle
- Astell and the History of Political Philosophy
- Jacqueline Broad and Occasional Thoughts
- Politics and Feminism in Margaret Cavendish
- Politics and Feminism in Catharine Macaulay
- Mary Wollstonecraft in Modern Political Philosophy
About this book
Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy. The present collection of essays has as its primary aim to evaluate past women’s published philosophical work, and to introduce readers to newly recovered female figures; the collection will also make contributions to the history of the philosophy of gender, and to the history of feminist social and political philosophy, insofar as the collection will discuss women’s views on these issues.
The volume contains contributions by an international group of leading historians of philosophy and political thought, whose scholarship represents some of the very best work being done in North and Central America, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Reviews
“Anyone interested in teaching, writing about, or merely familiarizing themselves further with this area will find this collection invaluable.” (Margaret Atherton, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 58 (3), July, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marcy P. Lascano is Professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas. Her current research focuses on the works of women philosophers, including Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, and Emilie du Châtelet. She has published articles in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, and The Modern Schoolman, along with book chapters in Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, The Routledge Companion to the Seventeenth Century, and Women on Liberty, 1600-1800. She is co-editor, with Lisa Shapiro, of Early Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources. She is also working on a monograph on early modern women’s metaphysics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought
Editors: Eileen O’Neill, Marcy P. Lascano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18118-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18117-8Published: 08 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18120-8Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18118-5Published: 26 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 456
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy