The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft
Sandrine Bergès and Alan M. S. J. Coffee
Abstract
Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning and intense research is underway to recover their works, many of which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is interest in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long been studied by feminists and later discovered by political scientists, philosophers have only recently begun to recognize the value of her work for their discipline. This volume brings together current leading scholarship that introduces readers to Wollstonecraft’s range as a moral and political philosopher of ... More
Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning and intense research is underway to recover their works, many of which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is interest in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long been studied by feminists and later discovered by political scientists, philosophers have only recently begun to recognize the value of her work for their discipline. This volume brings together current leading scholarship that introduces readers to Wollstonecraft’s range as a moral and political philosopher of note, taking both a historical perspective and applying her thinking to current academic debates. Subjects include Wollstonecraft’s ideas on love and respect, friendship and marriage, motherhood, property in the person, and virtue and the emotions, as well as the application her thought has for current thinking on relational autonomy, and animal and children’s rights. A major theme of the book places her within the republican tradition of political theory and analyses the contribution she makes to its conceptual resources.
Keywords:
Wollstonecraft,
history of philosophy,
political philosophy,
women philosophers,
republicanism,
feminism,
history of feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198766841 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766841.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sandrine Bergès, editor
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Alan M. S. J. Coffee, editor
Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
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