Mary Astell And John Norris

Author : Melvyn New
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919547
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Astell and John Norris written by Melvyn New and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
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Download or read book Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author [Mary Astell] of the Proposal to the Ladies and Mr. John Norris written by John Norris and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr. John Norris written by John Norris and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Norris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies [i.e. Mary Astell] and Mr. John Norris written by John Norris and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. J. Mander
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155216X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of John Norris written by W. J. Mander and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today as one of the earliest critics of John Locke, John Norris (1657-1711) incorporated ideas of Augustine, Malebranche, Plato, the Cambridge Platonists, and the scholastics into an original synthesis that was highly influential on the philosophy and theology of his day. W. J. Mander presents a much-needed study of this unjustly neglected thinker, and the different perspectives he offers on this seminal period in philosophical history.

Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139447768
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Astell written by Patricia Springborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacqueline Broad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197507018
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England written by Jacqueline Broad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two collections of correspondence written by early modern English women philosophers. In this volume, Jacqueline Broad presents letters from three influential thinkers of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Broad provides introductory essays for each figure and explanatory annotations to clarify unfamiliar language, content, and historical context for the modern reader. Her selections make available many letters that have never been published before or that live scattered in various archives, obscure manuscripts, and rare books. The discussions range in subject from moral theology and ethics to epistemology and metaphysics; they involve some well-known thinkers of the period, such as John Norris, George Hickes, Mary Chudleigh, John Locke, and Edmund Law. By centering epistolary correspondence, Broad's anthology works to reframe early modern philosophy, the foundation for so much of twentieth-century philosophy, as consisting of collaborative debates that women actively participated in and shaped. Together with its companion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence is an invaluable primary resource for students, scholars, and those undertaking further research in the history of women's contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought.

Author : John Norris
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies [i.e. Mary Astell] and Mr. John Norris written by John Norris and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Sowaal
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077581
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell written by Alice Sowaal and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacqueline Broad
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198716818
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Mary Astell written by Jacqueline Broad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.