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9780521479042: Anne Conway: Ancient & Modern Phil
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ISBN 10 : 0521479045 ISBN 13 : 9780521479042
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, and her scandalous conversion to the despised sect of Quakers indicate a strength of character and independence of mind wholly unexpected (and unwanted) in a woman at the time. Translated for the first time into modern English, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy is the most interesting and original philosophical work written by a woman in the seventeenth century. Her radical and unorthodox ideas are important not only because they anticipated the more tolerant, ecumenical, and optimistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, but also because of their influence on Leibniz. This fully annotated edition includes an introduction which places Conway in her historical and philosophical contexts, together with a chronology of her life and a bibliography.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, and her scandalous conversion to the despised sect of Quakers indicate a strength of character and independence of mind wholly unexpected (and unwanted) in a woman at the time. Translated for the first time into modern English, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy is the most interesting and original philosophical work written by a woman in the seventeenth century. Her radical and unorthodox ideas are important not only because they anticipated the more tolerant, ecumenical, and optimistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, but also because of their influence on Leibniz. This fully annotated edition includes an introduction which places Conway in her historical and philosophical contexts, together with a chronology of her life and a bibliography.

Revue de presse

"This is a book of historical and philosophical importance...Coudert and Corse have presented Conway's treatise in a very readable translation...they make clear Conway's remarkable achievement in an age in which women were rarely found in the circles of philosophical debate." The Eighteenth Century

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521479045
ISBN 13 
9780521479042
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Broché
Nombre de pages
116
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9781409912835: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy

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ISBN 10 :  1409912833 ISBN 13 :  9781409912835
Editeur : Dodo Press, 2009
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