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Sarah (Hrsg.) Hutton

Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680): A Philosopher in her Historical Context

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This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher René Descartes, Elisabeth was famous in her own time for her learning, philosophical acumen, and mathematical brilliance. She was also well-connected in the seventeenth-century intellectual circles. Elisabeth's status as a woman philosopher is emblematic of both the possibilities and limitations of women's participation in the republic of letters and of their subsequent fate in history. Few sources containing her own views survive, and until recent… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ebbersmeyer, Sabrina (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-71527-4
  • EAN: 9783030715274
  • Produktnummer: 37698504
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'508 KB

Über den Autor


Sabrina Ebbersmeyer is Associate Professor for the history of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Working primarily on Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy, her research focusses on debates in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, on humanism and gender in the historiography of philosophy. She has published on numerous Renaissance and Early Modern philosophers, including Isotta Nogarola, Bernardino Telesio, Elisabeth of Bohemia and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. She is author of Homo agens (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2010), has edited the volume Emotional Minds (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2012) and translated the letter exchange between Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes into German (München: Fink 2015).Sarah Hutton is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York. She has pioneered research on the history of women philosophers. Her publications include a monograph, Anne Conway. A Woman Philosopher (CUP), Women Science and Medicine co-edited with Lynette Hunter (Alan Sutton), and a revised edition of Conway Letters (first published by Marjorie Nicolson). She has also published articles on Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell and Émilie du Chatelet.

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