Wollstonecraft (eBook)

Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

Sylvana Tomaselli (Autor)

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2020
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21263-0 (ISBN)

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A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft's thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of Wollstonecraft herself, as a philosopher and moralist who deftly tackled major social and political issues and the arguments of such figures as Edmund Burke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Reading Wollstonecraft through the lens of the politics and culture of her own time, this book restores her to her rightful place as a major eighteenth-century thinker, reminding us why her work still resonates today.The book's format echoes one that Wollstonecraft favored in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: short essays paired with concise headings. Under titles such as "e;Painting,"e; "e;Music,"e; "e;Memory,"e; "e;Property and Appearance,"e; and "e;Rank and Luxury,"e; Tomaselli explores not only what Wollstonecraft enjoyed and valued, but also her views on society, knowledge and the mind, human nature, and the problem of evil-and how a society based on mutual respect could fight it. The resulting picture of Wollstonecraft reveals her as a particularly engaging author and an eloquent participant in enduring social and political concerns.Drawing us into Wollstonecraft's approach to the human condition and the debates of her day, Wollstonecraft ultimately invites us to consider timeless issues with her, so that we can become better attuned to the world as she saw it then, and as we might wish to see it now.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: absurdity • Adam Smith • ad hominem • affection • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Alan Coffee • ALL THINGS • And Interest • a new idea of woman • Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Anxiety • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful • Artifice • association of ideas • A Vindication of the Rights of Men • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • barbara taylor • Barter • Bee Wilson • Book • Calculation • Capital punishment • Catharine Macaulay • Censure • chivalry • Citizenship • Clergy • Comparative Advantage • connotation • Contemporary Society • contentment • Conversation • Creationism • Criminal Law • critique • debt • declamation • declaration of the rights of women • Desertion • dignity • distrust • Duty • Edmund Burke • effeminacy • Eileen Hunt Botting • Elizabeth Carter • Eloquence • english people • evil and perfection • Exertion • Existence • Explanation • Feeling • femininity • Fine Art • Flourishing • forbearance • Forms of Government • Frankenstein • french people • Genre • gilbert imlay • Good and evil • governess • history of civilization • Homosexuality • Human nature • hypocrisy • idleness • Imagery • Imagination • Imitation • implementation • indulgence • Inequality • infatuation • interdependence • I Wish (manhwa) • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jews • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Jonathan Swift • Judaism • language • laughter • learning • Leveling (philosophy) • Literature • Love and friendship • mansion • Mary Astell • Mary Shelley • Mary Wollstonecraft • Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination • Mary Wollstonecraft in Context • Mind, Body, Soul • Modesty • Moral Character • Morality • Morality and religion • Moral Thought • music • Nancy E. Johnson • Nature • Nobility • Non-fiction • Northern Europe • novelist • of education • Olympe de Gouges • Oppression • originality • Original Stories from Real Life • Ownership • painting • Pamphlet • Paragraph • parenting • passions, appetites, emotions • Patriotism • Paul Keen • Pedagogy • perception • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • Philosophy of Religion • Physical Exercise • picturesque • piety • pity • Playwright • Poet • Poetry • Polemic • Political corruption • Political Philosophy • Political thought • Politics • Prejudice • Primogeniture • Princeton University Press • Principle • progress of civilization • property and appearance • Prose • Publication • Quentin Skinner • rank and womanhood • Raymond Geuss • Reading • reason • reflections on the revolution in france • Religion • respect • rhetorical question • rights • Romanticism • Rousseau • Sandrine Berges • Scarcity • school of thought • Scientist • Self-Interest • Selfishness • self-love • sensibility • Sensory Experience • simile • Sincerity • Slavery • sobriety • Social reality • solitary confinement • State of nature • stupidity • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Theatre • the beautiful • The condition of women • the imagination • The mind • Theory of Forms • The Sublime • The Various • The Wollstonecraftian Mind • Thomas Hobbes • Thomas Paine • Thought • thoughts on the education of daughters • tranquillity • Travel • Understanding • unity of humanity • unrequited love • vanity • Varied practice • Venality • virtue • Wealth • well-being • William Godwin • William Roscoe • Writing • Youth
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21263-5 / 0691212635
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21263-0 / 9780691212630