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Title Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) : a philosopher in her historical context / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Sarah Hutton, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Series Women in the history of philosophy and sciences, 2523-8779 ; volume 9
Women in the history of philosophy and sciences ; v. 9. 2523-8779
Contents Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Sarah Hutton Introduction -- I Elisabeth's intellectual world. Nadine Akkerman Elisabeth of Bohemia's Aristocratic Upbringing and Education at the Prinsenhof, Rapenburg 4-10, Leiden, c. 1627/8-32 -- Mirjam de Baar Elisabeth of Bohemia's Lifelong Friendship with Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) -- Sabrina Ebbersmeyer Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Sciences: The Case of Astronomy -- Sarah Hutton Princess Elisabeth and Anne Conway: the interconnected Circles of Two Philosophical Women -- II Elisabeth's political thought and its contextCarol Pal Persistent Princess: The Personal Politics of Elisabeth of Bohemia -- Gianni Paganini Elisabeth and Descartes read Machiavelli in the Time of Hobbes -- Lisa Shapiro Princess Elisabeth and the Challenges of Philosophizing -- III Elisabeth's philosophical thought in exchange with Descartes Lilli Alanen The Soul's Extension: Elisabeth's Solution to Descartes' Mind-Body Problem -- Martina Reuter Elisabeth on Free Will, Preordination, and Philosophical Doubt -- Dominik Perler Is Our Happiness Up to Us? Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Limits of Internalism -- Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin The Feminine Body in the Correspondence between Descartes and Elisabeth -- Denis Kambouchner What is Elisabeth's Cartesianism?
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 19, 2021)
Subject Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662 -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Bohemia, 1596-1662 fast
Subject Queens -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- Biography
Princesses -- Great Britain -- Biography
Philosophy
Princesses
Queens
Czech Republic -- Bohemia
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Ebbersmeyer, Sabrina, editor.
Hutton, Sarah, 1948- editor.
ISBN 9783030715274
3030715272