Mary Astell

Author : Christine Mason Sutherland
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552381533

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The Eloquence of Mary Astell by Christine Mason Sutherland Pdf

The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate.

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X001181156

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The First English Feminist by Mary Astell Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Broad
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198716815

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The Philosophy of Mary Astell by Jacqueline Broad Pdf

Jacqueline Broad presents a new account of the philosophy of Mary Astell (1666-1731), which situates Astell's feminist, political, and religious views in the context of her wider philosophical vision. She argues that at the heart of Astell's thought lies a theory of virtue which emphasises generosity of character, benevolence, and moderation.

Author : Michal Michelson,Professor William Kolbrener
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489658

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Mary Astell by Michal Michelson,Professor William Kolbrener Pdf

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith includes essays from diverse disciplinary perspectives to consider the full range of Astell's political, theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume does not eschew the more traditional scholarly interest in Astell's concerns about gender; rather, it reveals how Astell's works require attention not only for their role in the development of early modern feminism, but also for their interventions on subjects ranging from political authority to educational theory, from individual agency to divine service, and from Cartesian ethics to Lockean epistemology. Given the vast breadth of her writings, her active role within early modern political and theological debates, and the sophisticated complexity of her prose, Astell has few parallels among her contemporaries. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith bestows upon Astell the attention which she deserves not merely as a proto-feminist, but as a major figure of the early modern period.

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368376840

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Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions by Mary Astell Pdf

Author : Alice Sowaal,Penny A. Weiss
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271077581

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Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell by Alice Sowaal,Penny A. Weiss Pdf

Often referred to as a proto-feminist, early modern English philosopher and rhetorician Mary Astell was a pious supporter of monarchy who wrote about gender equality at a time when society tightly constrained female agency. This diverse collection of essays situates her ideas in feminist, historical, and philosophical contexts. Focusing on Astell’s work and thought, this book explores the degree to which she can be considered a “feminist” in light of her adherence to Cartesianism, Christian theology, and Tory politics. The contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of Astell’s outspoken advocacy for the autonomy and education of women; examine the intricacies underlying her theories of power, community, and female resistance to unlawful authority; and reveal the similarities between her own philosophy of gender and sexual politics and feminist theorizing today. A broad-ranging look at one of the most important female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this volume will be especially valuable to students and scholars of feminist history and philosophy and the early modern era. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Kathleen A. Ahearn, Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen, Susan Paterson Glover, Marcy P. Lascano, Elisabeth Hedrick Moser, Christine Mason Sutherland, and Nancy Tuana.

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1701
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : PSU:000000323086

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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies by Mary Astell Pdf

Author : Ruth Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226660958

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The Celebrated Mary Astell by Ruth Perry Pdf

Author : Melvyn New
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351919548

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Mary Astell and John Norris by Melvyn New Pdf

Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have reached a wide academic audience. This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton (1657-1711), Letters Concerning the Love of God, which was published in three separate editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1695, 1705, 1730). This work had profound significance in eighteenth-century intellectual and religious circles, and represents a crucial step in the development of Norris and Astell's philosophical and theological opposition to that most prominent of Enlightenment figures, John Locke. Letters Concerning the Love of God includes, as contextual material, Norris's Cursory Reflections upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), the first published philosophical response to (as Bishop Stillingfleet would later put it) Locke's 'new way of ideas,' and Astell's biting and comprehensive attack on Locke in the 'Appendix' to the second edition of The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (1717). These texts serve to place both Letters and its authors in the contentious philosophical-theological climate to which they belonged, one wherein, most significantly, Locke's present-day preeminence had yet to be realized. The editors' extensive introduction and annotations to this volume not only provide background on the historical and biographical elements, but also elucidate philosophical and theological concepts that are perhaps unfamiliar to modern readers.

Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139447769

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Mary Astell by Patricia Springborg Pdf

Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminists alike but, as a Royalist High Church Tory, the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators. Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes, recovering the historical and philosophical contexts to her thought. She shows that Astell was not alone in her views; rather, she was part of a cohort of early modern women philosophers who were important for the reception of Descartes and who grappled with the existential problems of a new age.

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1696
Category : Feminism
ISBN : BL:A0021181185

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An essay in defence of the female sex by Mary Astell Pdf

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428459

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Astell: Political Writings by Mary Astell Pdf

First modern edition of three works by an important female political theorist.

Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1705
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : BL:A0020133377

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The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England [i.e. Mary Astell]. by Mary Astell Pdf

Author : William Kolbrener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100096

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Mary Astell by William Kolbrener Pdf

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith includes essays from diverse disciplinary perspectives to consider the full range of Astell's political, theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume does not eschew the more traditional scholarly interest in Astell's concerns about gender; rather, it reveals how Astell's works require attention not only for their role in the development of early modern feminism, but also for their interventions on subjects ranging from political authority to educational theory, from individual agency to divine service, and from Cartesian ethics to Lockean epistemology. Given the vast breadth of her writings, her active role within early modern political and theological debates, and the sophisticated complexity of her prose, Astell has few parallels among her contemporaries. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith bestows upon Astell the attention which she deserves not merely as a proto-feminist, but as a major figure of the early modern period.

Author : James M. Ambury,Tushar Irani,Kathleen Wallace
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119746898

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Philosophy as a Way of Life by James M. Ambury,Tushar Irani,Kathleen Wallace Pdf

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. Illustrates how the articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom Questions how we might convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practiced Offers a collection of essays on an emerging field of philosophical research Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars of philosophy, moral philosophy, and pedagogy; also business and professional people who have an interest in expanding their horizons