Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Sarah Hutton (eds.) Women Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. New Studies. New York etc.: Routledge 2021. ISBN 9780367758646

 

Book Description

This collection of essays presents new work on women’s contribution to philosophy between the Renaissance and the mid-eighteenth century. They bring a new perspective to the history of philosophy, by highlighting women’s contributions to philosophy and testifying to the rich history of women’s thought in this period.

By showing that women were active in many branches of philosophy (metaphysics, science, political philosophy cosmology, ontology, epistemology) the book testifies to the rich history of women’s thought across Europe in this period. The scope of the collection is international, both in terms of the philosophers represented and the contributors themselves from Britain and North America, but also from continental Europe and from as far afield as Australia and Brazil. The philosophers discussed here include both figures who have recently come to be better known (Elisabeth of Bohemia, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Emilie du Châtelet), and less familiar figures (Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella Arcangela Tarabotti, Tullia d’Aragona, Madame Deshoulières, Madame de Sablé, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly, Oliva Sabuco, Susanna Newcome).

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: New Perspectives on Women Philosophers

Ruth Hagengruber and Sarah Hutton

1. Women, philosophy and the history of philosophy

Sarah Hutton

2. Leone Ebreo in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogo. Between Varchi’s legacy and philosophical autonomy

Delfina Giovanozzi

3. Patriarchal power as unjust: tyranny in seventeenth-century Venice

Marguerite Deslauriers

4. Oliva Sabuco de Nantes and her Nueva Filosofia: a new philosophy of human nature and the interaction between mind and body

Sandra Plastina

5. Elisabeth of Bohemia's Neo-Peripatetic account of the emotions

Ariane Schneck

6. Monism and individuation in Anne Conway as a critique of Spinoza

Nastassja Pugliese

7. Tutor, salon, convent: the formation of women philosophers in early modern France

John Joseph Conley

8. Mary Astell’s critique of Pierre Bayle: atheism and intellectual integrity in the Pensées (1682)

Jacqueline Broad

9. On some footnotes to Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding

Karen Green

10. Susanna Newcome's cosmological argument

Patrick J. Connolly

11. ‘Mon petit essai’: Émilie du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’optique and her early natural philosophy

Bryce Gessell