The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Berges, Sandrine; Coffee, Alan M. S. J.

• ISBN13: 9780198766841
• ISBN10: 019876684X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-01-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sandrine Berges, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey,Alan M. S. J. Coffee, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London

Sandrine Berges is a philosopher working at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests are in Ancient moral and political philosophy, feminist history of philosophy, and feminist ethics. She has published three books: Plato, Virtue and the Law (2009), Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and, A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics (2015).

Alan Coffee is a philosopher working at King's College London. His research interests are in social and political philosophy, particularly in the areas of freedom, equality and global justice. His special interest is in recovering the political philosophy contained in women's writing in the eighteenth century and in slave narratives in the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Reflections on Inequality, Respect and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli
2. Mary Wollstonecraft on Marriage as Virtue Friendship, Nancy Kendrick
3. The Role of Passions in Mary Wollstonecraft s Concept of Virtue, Martina Reuter
4. Mary Wollstonecraft: an Early Relational Autonomy Theorista?, Catriona Mackenzie
5. Mary Wollstonecraft, Children s Human Rights and Animal Ethics, Eileen Hunt Botting
6. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Properties of (Anti) Slavery, Laura Brace
7. Republican Elements in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Pettit
8. Mary Wollstonecraft s Conception of Rights, Susan James
9. Constitutional and Political Representation in Mary Wollstonecraft s Philosophy, Lena Halldenius
10. Mary Wollstonecraft, Public Reason and the Virtuous Republic, Alan Coffee
11. Wet-nurses and Political Participation: the Republican Approaches to Motherhood of Mary Wollstonecraft and Sophie de Grouchy, Sandrine Berges
12. Mary Wollstonecraft and Modern Philosophy, Barbara Taylor