Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence

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Jacqueline Broad (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne)

Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England

Selected Correspondence

Jacqueline Broad (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 October 2019

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Gender studies: women

Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet. These women were the interlocutors of some of the best-known intellectuals of their era, including Constantijn Huygens, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Joseph Glanvill, John Locke, Jean Le Clerc, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from religion, moral theology, and ethics to epistemology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. For the first time in one collection, the philosophical correspondences of these women have been brought together to be appreciated as a whole. Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England is an invaluable primary resource for students and scholars of these neglected women thinkers. It includes original introductory essays for each woman philosopher, demonstrating how her correspondences contributed to the formation of her own views as well as those of her better-known contemporaries. It also provides detailed scholarly annotations to the letters and epistles, explaining unfamiliar philosophical ideas and defining obscure terminology to help make the texts accessible and comprehensible to the modern reader. This collection and its companion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England (forthcoming), provide valuable historical evidence that women made substantial contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought and reflect the intensely collaborative and gender-inclusive nature of philosophical discussion in the early modern period.

Edited by: Jacqueline Broad (Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Philosophy Monash University Melbourne)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 424g
ISBN: 9780190673338
ISBN 10: 0190673338
Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 07 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacqueline Broad is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She recently published an edited collection of essays with Karen Detlefsen, Women and Liberty, 1600-1800 (OUP, 2017). She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009).

Reviews for Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence

Jacqueline Broad has produced a terrific volume and an invaluable resource for scholars and students. * David Cunning, University of Iowa, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR) *