This paper examines the surprisingly central role of sympathetic love within Margaret Cavendish’s philosophy. It shows that such love fulfils a range of metaphysical functions, and highlight an important shift in Cavendish’s account vis-a-vis earlier conceptions: sympathetic love is no longer given an emanative or mechanistic explanation, but is naturalized as an active emotion. It furthers investigate to what extent Cavendish’s account reveals a rift between the realm of nature and the realm of human sociability, and whether this rift really prompts an inward turn, as some interpreters have suggested
My dissertation, “Love, Self-Constitution, and Practical Necessity,” offers an interpretation of lov...
How to conceptualize loving relationships so as to accommodate that just love is geared toward prese...
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki.What did Imman...
This paper examines the surprisingly central role of sympathetic love within Margaret Cavendish’s ph...
Margaret Cavendish is a vitalist, materialist, and monist. She holds that human beings and other nat...
Sometimes we love and hate the same thing at the same time. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)—the maver...
This dissertation explicates the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle,...
In the first half of 2009 I organized a series of talks at University of California, San Francisco. ...
Margaret Cavendish is widely regarded as a vitalist: she considers all matter as alive, including an...
This paper considers Margaret Cavendish's distinctive anti-mechanist materialism, focusing on her 16...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020I argue for an account of René Descartes’ theory of l...
Writing at a time when women had few property rights, were given scarce educational opportunities, a...
In this paper, I offer a new interpretation of Margaret Cavendish’s remarks on beauty. According to ...
Love has traditionally been understood either as an objective, transcendentforce, or a subjective ab...
In the following pages we are going to briefly recollect some of Scheler’s main arguments concerning...
My dissertation, “Love, Self-Constitution, and Practical Necessity,” offers an interpretation of lov...
How to conceptualize loving relationships so as to accommodate that just love is geared toward prese...
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki.What did Imman...
This paper examines the surprisingly central role of sympathetic love within Margaret Cavendish’s ph...
Margaret Cavendish is a vitalist, materialist, and monist. She holds that human beings and other nat...
Sometimes we love and hate the same thing at the same time. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)—the maver...
This dissertation explicates the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle,...
In the first half of 2009 I organized a series of talks at University of California, San Francisco. ...
Margaret Cavendish is widely regarded as a vitalist: she considers all matter as alive, including an...
This paper considers Margaret Cavendish's distinctive anti-mechanist materialism, focusing on her 16...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020I argue for an account of René Descartes’ theory of l...
Writing at a time when women had few property rights, were given scarce educational opportunities, a...
In this paper, I offer a new interpretation of Margaret Cavendish’s remarks on beauty. According to ...
Love has traditionally been understood either as an objective, transcendentforce, or a subjective ab...
In the following pages we are going to briefly recollect some of Scheler’s main arguments concerning...
My dissertation, “Love, Self-Constitution, and Practical Necessity,” offers an interpretation of lov...
How to conceptualize loving relationships so as to accommodate that just love is geared toward prese...
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki.What did Imman...