Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) : a philosopher in her historical context / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Sarah Hutton, editors.

• Introduction / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton -- Part I Elisabeth's intellectual world -- Elisabeth of Bohemia's Aristocratic Upbringing and Education at the Prinsenhof, Rapenburg 4-10, Leiden, c. 1627/8-32 / Nadine Akkerman -- Elisabeth of Bohemia's Lifelong Friendship with Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / Mirjam de Baar -- Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Sciences: The Case of Astronomy / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer -- Princess Elisabeth and Anne Conway: the interconnected Circles of Two Philosophical Women / Sarah Hutton -- Part II Elisabeth's political thought and its context -- Persistent Princess: How Elisabeth of Bohemia Constructed her Personal Politics / Carol Pal -- Elisabeth and Descartes read Machiavelli in the Time of Hobbes / Gianni Paganini -- Princess Elisabeth and the Challenges of Philosophizing / Lisa Shapiro -- Part III Elisabeth's philosophical thought in her exchange with Descartes -- The Soul's Extension: Elisabeth's Solution to Descartes's Mind-Body Problem / Lilli Alanen -- Elisabeth on Free Will, Preordination, and Philosophical Doubt / Martina Reuter -- Is Our Happiness Up to Us? Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Limits of Internalism / Dominik Perler -- The Feminine Body in the Correspondence between Descartes and Elisabeth / Marie-Frederique Pellegrin -- What is Elisabeth's Cartesianism? / Denis Kambouchner.

• This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher René Descartes, Elisabeth was famous in her own time for her learning, philosophical acumen, and mathematical brilliance. She was also well-connected in the seventeenth-century intellectual circles. Elisabeth's status as a woman philosopher is emblematic of both the possibilities and limitations of women's participation in the republic of letters and of their subsequent fate in history. Few sources containing her own views survive, and until recently there has been no work on Elisabeth as a thinker in her own right. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to discuss her work from a cross-disciplinary perspective on the occasion of her fourth centenary. It is the first collection of essays to examine a range of her interests and to discuss them in relation to her historical context. The studies presented here discuss her educational background, her friendships and contacts, her interest in politics, religion, and astronomy, as well as her views on politics, her moral philosophy and her engagement with Cartesianism. The volume will appeal to historians of philosophy, historians of political thought, philosophers, feminists and seventeenth-century historians. 

Ämnesord

Drottningar  (sao)

Prinsessor  (sao)

Filosofi  (sao)

Queens  -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- Biography. (LCSH)

Princesses  -- Great Britain -- Biography. (LCSH)

Philosophy.  (fast)

Princesses.  (fast)

Queens.  (fast)

Philosophy  (LCSH)

Queens  (LCSH)

Princesses  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Tjeckien  -- Böhmen (sao)

Great Britain.  (fast)

Czech Republic  -- Bohemia. (fast)

Genre

Biographies.  (fast)

Personnamn

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662 -- Philosophy.

Elisabet, kurfurstinna av Pfalz, drottning av Böhmen, 1596-1662

Klassifikation

D244.8.E4 (LCC)

943.710232092 (DDC)

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