Queenly Philosophers (eBook)

Renaissance Women Aristocrats as Platonic Guardians

Jane Duran (Autor)

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2017
294 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4137-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Much recent work has been done on Plato’s notion of the female Guardian, but examples are limited. Jane Duran argues that aristocratic women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are indeed exemplary and embody the concept of Guardianship.

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Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on the female Guardian, or "e;Philosopher Queen,"e; but mainly insofar as the idea is problematic. Okin, Saxonhouse, and others have tried to be more precise about the concepts involved-this work aims to use actual publications by British and continentally-trained women aristocrats of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to fill in the lacunae. It is concluded that these women were not only philosophical thinkers, but in some sense Guardians. Their overview encompassed notions of duty, care, and a concern of the development of the intellectual life that left a mark for future generations.

Autor

Jane Duran is lecturer in Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART ONE: The Guardian QuestionChapter One: Philosopher Queens PART TWO: Theology and Philosophy Chapter Two: The 1500’s as a Time of ChangeChapter Three: Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of PembrokeChapter Four: Katherine Parr, Queen ConsortChapter Five: Elizabeth IPART THREE: Science and PhilosophyChapter Six: The 1600’s and Intellectual FermentChapter Seven: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of NewcastleChapter Eight: Aphra Behn and the Aristocratic CirclePART FOUR: Commitments and PhilosophersChapter Nine: The Aristocratic GuardiansBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Anne Askew • Aphra Behn • aristocrats • Aristotle • Catholicism • Elizabeth I • English Renaissance • Enlightenment • European Studies • feminist history • guardian • History of Philosophy • Intellectual history • Katherine Parr • Literacy • Literary Studies • Margaret Cavendish • Margaret Hannay • Mary Astell • Mary Sidney Herbert • New Learning • philosopher queens • Philosophy of Religion • philosophy of women • Plato • Protestantism • Reformation • Renaissance studies • Republic • restoration • rhetoric • Tudors • Wollstonecraft • Women philosophers
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4137-2 / 1498541372
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4137-4 / 9781498541374