Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America

This book advances the rediscovery of forgotten women philosophers in the nineteenth century who have been unjustly left out of the philosophical canon and omitted from narratives about the history of philosophy. It will be of use to students and researchers interested in Philosophy, Women's Studies, and the politics of gender.

Autorentext

Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. Her interests span the history of philosophy, post-Kantian European philosophy, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Her books include Being Born: Birth and Philosophy (2019), Frances Power Cobbe (2022) and Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023).

Charlotte Alderwick is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE Bristol. Her monograph Schelling's Ontology of Powers (2021) connects the history of philosophy with contemporary metaphysis; this is indicative of her philosophical approach. Charlotte is now working on Eco-philosophy and the contribution that historical philosophies of nature can make to this area.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Mary Shepherd and the meaning of 'life' 2. "Political...civil and domestic slavery": Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism 3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott: radical 'co-adjutors' in the American women's rights movement 4. Lydia Maria Child on German philosophy and American slavery 5. The fragility of rationality: George Eliot on akrasia and the law of consequences 6. "Count it all joy": black women's interventions in the abolitionist tradition 7. "Friendly to all beings": Annie Besant as ethicist 8. E. E. Constance Jones on the dualism of practical reason 9. Marietta Kies on idealism and good governance 10. Race and the 'right to growth': embodiment and education in the work of Anna Julia Cooper