Early Modern Female Philosophers: More Than One Voice!
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„Those who study early modern women philosophers are often asked if there were particular, so to say, ‘womanly’ preoccupations running through their writings. […] In point of fact, early modern women philosophers had many philosophical interests: some express proto-feminist concerns, while others talk about the universe as if the fact that it is a woman writing was not relevant. There is no unique or unifying topic to which women contributed in their philosophical work as ‘women’. […] The ‘metaphysical mode’ of feminist philosophy might be explored at a much deeper layer of philosophy than only in the words claiming the same rights.“ (Hagengruber & Hutton, 2019, p. 678)
Early modern female philosophers cannot be reduced to a single topic or a “female perspective.” The British Journal for the History of Philosophy is all about this diversity in Vol. 27, Issue 4. Edited by Sarah Hutton and Ruth E. Hagengruber, it shares research on thinkers like Elizabeth of Bohemia, Anne Conway, Émilie Du Châtelet, and Tullia d’Aragona—showing how diverse and international women’s philosophical work was during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
„Those who study early modern women philosophers are often asked if there were particular, so to say, ‘womanly’ preoccupations running through their writings. […] In point of fact, early modern women philosophers had many philosophical interests: some express proto-feminist concerns, while others talk about the universe as if the fact that it is a woman writing was not relevant. There is no unique or unifying topic to which women contributed in their philosophical work as ‘women’. […] The ‘metaphysical mode’ of feminist philosophy might be explored at a much deeper layer of philosophy than only in the words claiming the same rights.“ (Hagengruber & Hutton, 2019, p. 678)