Anne Conway - Hutton, Sarah
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Offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.
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This is the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, which challenged the major philosophers of her day - Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her…mehr

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Offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.

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This is the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, which challenged the major philosophers of her day - Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her historical and philosophical context, by reconstructing her social and intellectual milieu. She traces her intellectual development in relation to friends and associates such as Henry More, Sir John Finch, F. M. van Helmont, Robert Boyle, and George Keith. And she documents Conway's debt to Cambridge Platonism and her interest in religion - an interest which extended beyond Christian orthodoxy to Quakerism, Judaism and Islam. Her book offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Anne Finch: Viscountess Conway; 2. A philosophical education; 3. Religion and Anne Conway; 4. Anne Conway and Henry More; 5. John Finch, Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish; 6. Experimental physick: Boyle, Stubbe and Greatrakes; 7. Physic and philosophy: Van Helmont, father and son; 8. Kabbalistical dialogues; 9. Quakerism and George Keith; 10. Last years; 11. Legacy.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Hutton is Reader in Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Studies at the School of Arts, Middlesex University. Her publications include The Conway Letters: the Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More and their Friends, 1642-1684 (1992, a revised edition of a collection originally edited by Marjorie Nicolson in 1930), Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (Cambridge, 1996), Henry More (1614-1687): Tercentenary Studies (1990), and Platonism and the English Imagination (with Anna Baldwin, Cambridge, 1994).