Wollstonecraft

Independent Woman
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5095-1908-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues of her day: criticising social hierarchies, advocating for educational reform, analysing the French Revolution, and challenging men’s political dominance.

In this illuminating introduction, Alan Coffee argues that the originality of Wollstonecraft’s feminist arguments is best understood within the context of a systematic and comprehensive philosophical system built up from a set of ‘simple’ theological and moral principles. An effective way to approach this is through the concept of freedom as independence. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft’s works, including her novels, reviews and letters, Coffee shows how the ideal of independence illuminates and unites many of her intellectual preoccupations and her contribution to contemporary debates, such as on the structural nature of social injustice and the republican notion of freedom as non-domination.

This gripping account of Wollstonecraft’s work sheds new light on one of the most important eighteenth-century thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coffee, Alan M S J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1 An Amazon Stept Out
2 Life, Works, Interlocutors
3 Religious Foundation
4 Independence
5 Mind
6 Education
7 Civil and Political Life
8 Marriage and Family Life
9 Mere Dolls
10 Legacy

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan M. S. J. Coffee lectures in social and political philosophy at King’s College London.