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Author: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02-07
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521776752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 2001 edition of Margaret Cavendish's treatise on the philosophy of nature.
Author: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
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Published: 1668
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521772044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Margaret Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the picture of nature as a grand machine that was propounded by Hobbes and Descartes; she also rejects the alternative views of nature that make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.
Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1994-03-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0141904828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.
Author: Margaret Cavendish
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Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work
Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 177048731X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendish’s most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendish’s final articulation of her metaphysics but also because it succinctly outlines her fundamental views on “the nature of nature”—or the base substance and mechanics of all natural matter—and vividly demonstrates her probabilistic approach to philosophical enquiry. Moreover, Grounds spends considerable time discussing the human body, including the functions of the mind, a topic of growing interest to both historians of philosophy and literary scholars. This Broadview Edition opens to modern readers a vibrant, unique, and provocative voice of the past that challenges our standard view of seventeenth-century English philosophy.
Author: Line Cottegnies
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780838639832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cottegnies (English literature, University of Paris 8-Saint Denis) and Weitz (University of Oxford) offer a collection of essays on Margaret Cavendish's innovative use of genre. These interdisciplinary and multinational contributions present a variety of critical approaches to the problem of placing Cavendish's writing in the context of contemporary literary and philosophical history. The book is distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: David Burchell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1351901788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought.
Author: Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle)
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1624665160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but her writings are so voluminous and wide-ranging that introducing her work to students has been difficult—at least until this volume came along. This carefully edited abridgment of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy will be indispensable for making Cavendish's fascinating ideas accessible to students. Marshall's Introduction provides a helpful overview of themes in Cavendish's natural philosophy, and the footnotes contain useful background information about some of the texts and philosophers that Cavendish mentions. The additional selections from Descartes, Hobbes, Boyle, and Hooke also help contextualize Cavendish's views." —Deborah Boyle, College of Charleston
