Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This impressive collection of previously unpublished essays examines the relationship between competing conceptions of 'nature' and 'woman.' By looking historically and comprehensively at the problems and questions associated with human thinking about nature and woman, the contributors strive to gain the proper vantage point from which to assess modern virtues and vices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780847692477
• ISBN-10: 0847692477
• Artikelnr.: 21525878

Autorenporträt

Contributions by Steven Berg; Inger Sigrun Brodey; Ronna Burger; Nicholas Capaldi; Marc Conner; Matthew B. Crawford; Melissa Matthes; Domnica Radulescu; Arlene W. Saxonhouse; Denise Schaeffer; Evanthia Speliotis; Eduardo A. Velásquez; Germaine Paulo Walsh

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction. An Apology Chapter 2 Male and Female Created He
Them: Some Platonic Reflections on Genesis 1-3 Chapter 3 The Tragic
Heroine: Medea and the Problem of Exile Chapter 4 The "Woman Drama"
ofRepublic Book V Chapter 5 Women and Slaves in Aristotle'sPolitics I
Chapter 6 Livy, Lucretia, and Rome's Republican Founding: A Reading of
Female Rape and Masculine Virtu Chapter 7 Plutarch on PhilosophicEros and
Married Life Chapter 8 Women and/as Princes in Machiavelli's Comedies
Chapter 9 The Natural Rights Family: Locke on Women, Nature, and the
Problem of Patriarchy Chapter 10 Convention and Constraint in the Education
of Rousseau's "Natural Woman" Chapter 11 Honor, Civility, and Civilization:
David Hume on the Refinement of Sexual, Moral, and Civic Relations Chapter
12 When Vanity Leads to Virtue: Self-Regard in Jane Austen and Adam Smith
Chapter 13 Virtue and Friendship inPersuasion Jane Austen's "Aristotelian"
Understanding of Happiness Chapter 14 Evolving Conceptions of Women in
Modern Liberal Culture: From Hegel to Mill Chapter 15 Nietzsche's Woman as
Friend: The Paradox of Distance and Proximity Chapter 16 What Death Will
Buy: Escaping Gender in Emily Dickinson Chapter 17 Wild Women and Graceful
Girls: Toni Morrison's Winter's Tale