Cavendish

David Cunning

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Routledge
07 January 2016

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Series: Arguments of the Philosophers

Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important insights that bear on recent discussions of the nature and characteristics of intelligence and the question of whether or not the bodies that surround us are intelligent or have an intelligent cause; it anticipates some of the central views and arguments that are more commonly associated with figures like Thomas Hobbes and David Hume.

This is the first full account of Cavendish’s philosophy and covers the whole span of her work. David Cunning begins with an overview of Cavendish’s life and work before assessing her contribution to a wide range of philosophical subjects, including her arguments concerning materialism, experimentation, the existence of God, social and political philosophy and free will and compatibilism.

Setting Cavendish in both historical and philosophical context, he argues that like Spinoza she builds on central tenets of Descartes’ philosophy and develops them in a direction that Descartes himself would avoid. She defends a plenum metaphysics according to which all individuals are causally interdependent, and according to which the physical universe is a larger individual that constitutes all of reality.

Cavendish is essential reading for students of seventeenth-century philosophy, early modern philosophy and seventeenth-century literature.

By: David Cunning
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780415819602
ISBN 10: 0415819601
Series: Arguments of the Philosophers
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 07 January 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Cunning is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations (2010), and Everyday Examples: An Introduction to Philosophy (2014), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations (2014).

Reviews for Cavendish

"""Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments."" - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA ""For many years, Cavendish’s philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning’s book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker."" - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia"