Modern Virtue

Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent

Emily Dumler-Winckler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-763209-3 (ISBN)

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Modern societies are plagued with conflicts about basic beliefs, values, and ideals. What some call virtue, others count as vice. This book argues that the cultivation of the virtues as well as contestation about them are part and parcel of the goods that Christians and democratic societies share in common. Drawing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dumler-Winckler aims to dissolve the anxieties of both defenders and despisers of virtue ethics and so form a rapprochement. Influenced by religious dissenters in eighteenth-century England, Wollstonecraft revolutionized ancient traditions of the virtues in modern ways for feminist and abolitionist aims. For this modern feminist, as for premodern Christians, moral formation requires putting exemplars to the test of critical examination-discarding some, adopting others, and emulating the virtues of each.

By elaborating the specifically theological aspects of Wollstonecraft's account, this book demonstrates the important role religious traditions have played in feminism and radical socio-political movements in the modern era. By treating the relation between modern rights and virtues such as justice and friendship, Dumler-Winckler illuminates their vital relation and roles in modern democratic societies. With good reason, both modernity and virtue have cultured despisers. Modern Virtue provides an account of the virtues in modernity and, even, the virtues of modernity.

Emily Dumler-Winckler is Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology and Christian Ethics at Saint Louis University where she serves on the advisory board for the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She received her PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and held a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Who's Wollstonecraft? Which Traditions?
1. Dissenting Devotional Taste: The Virtues of Madness
2. Staging a Tragicomic Revolution: The Virtues of Ethical Conflict
3. Imitating Christ: Virtues and Sexed Semblances
4. On Justice: Virtues and Rights
5. On Love: Virtues and Political Friendship
Conclusion: What is Modern Virtue?
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 164 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-763209-2 / 0197632092
ISBN-13	978-0-19-763209-3 / 9780197632093
Zustand	Neuware