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Women Philosophers on Autonomy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Women Philosophers on Autonomy Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Edited By Sandrine Berges, Alberto L. Siani Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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We encounter autonomy in virtually every area of philosophy: in its relation with rationality, personality, self-identity, authenticity, freedom, moral values and motivations, and forms of government, legal, and social institutions. At the same time, the notion of autonomy has been the subject of significant criticism. Some argue that autonomy outweighs or even endangers interpersonal or... Read more

1. Introduction

Sandrine Bergès and Alberto L. Siani

2. Hildegaard von Blingen on Autotonomy

Julia Lerius

3. Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left to Lose: Olivia Sabuco’s Philosophy and Life

Mary Ellen Waithe

4. Complaisance and the Question of Autonomy in the French Women Moralists, 1650-1710

Andreas Blank

5. Margaret Cavendish on Women’s Autonomy, Political Skepticism and Republican Values

Sandrine Bergès

6. Three Types of Infinite Autonomy: The Philosophy of Anne Conway

Fiona Tomkinson

7. Independence as Relational Freedom: A Republican Account Derived from Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay

Alan Coffee

8. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Contribution to the "Invention of Autonomy"

Martina Reuter

9. No Justice without Autonomy: Olympe de Gouges and Susan Moller Okin

Alberto L. Siani

10. Autonomy, Divinity, and the Common Good: Selflessness as a Source of Freedom in Thomas Hill Green and Mary Augusta Ward

Patrick Fessenbecker

11. Intersextuality: Derrida & Cixous

Hatics Karaman

12. Responsibility and Involvement: Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Justification of Abortion

Daniela Ringkamp

13. "Living in Contradition": Iris Marion Young’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Sports

Martine Prange

14. Autonomy, Emotional Vulnerability and the Dynamics of Power

Carla Bagnoli

Biography

Sandrine Bergès is associate professor in philosophy at Bilkent University in Ankara. Her books include: The Routledge Companion to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics. She also co-edited The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Alan Coffee).

Alberto L. Siani is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at Università di Pisa, after being an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Among others, he published Morte dell’arte, libertà del soggetto. Attualità di Hegel (2017), and edited L’estetica di Hegel (2014, with Mario Farina).

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