Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality: Historical, Methodological and Philosophical Issues - Couverture rigide

Livre 7 sur 18: Studies in the History of Political Thought

Guillin, Vincent

 
9789004174696: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality: Historical, Methodological and Philosophical Issues
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004174699 ISBN 13 : 9789004174696
Editeur : Brill, 2009

Synopsis

Vincent Guillin uses the issue of sexual equality as a prism through which to examine important differences - epistemological, methodological and theoretical - between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He succeeds in showing how their differing conceptions of science and human nature influence and affect their respective approaches to philosophy and to the analysis of female (in)equality in particular. Guillin shines a bright searchlight into long-neglected aspects of both men's thinking - for example, Mill's proposal to construct an 'ethology', or science of character-formation, and Comte's seemingly bizarre interest in phrenology - and the ways in which these shaped their views of women's intellectual and political capacities. Guillin's wide-ranging study examines both men's major and minor works, their correspondence with one another, and the reasons for the final acrimonious break between two of the nineteenth century's most original and important thinkers.

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À propos de l?auteur

Vincent Guillin is currently Assistant Professor at the Collège de France in Paris, for the Chair of the Philosophy of Life Science. After graduating from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he completed a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics in 2006. He is working at the intersection of philosophy of science, political philosophy and history of science, especially on the various ways scientific theories have informed and are informing projects of social reforms and public policies. He is also interested in the early reception of John Stuart Mill's writings and ideas in France. Most recently, he has co-edited, together with Anne Fagot-Largeault, Frédéric Worms and Arnauld François, a special issue of Annales Bergsoniennes (Paris, PUF, 2008) on Henri Bergson's Evolution creatrice.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004174699
ISBN 13 
9789004174696
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
367
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