Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay

This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.

About the author

Karen Green has been a pioneer in the movement to include women's philosophical texts in the history of philosophy, concentrating on their contributions to political and ethical thought. In 1995 she published The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought (Polity) and most recently A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 2014).

Summary

This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.

Additional text

Green's newly published edition of Macaulay's correspondence allows us to understand the historian and political figure in her own terms as opposed to a representative of a supposedly coherent commonwealth or republican tradition, as she has often been considered since the work of Caroline Robbins and J. G. A. Pocock. Her contextually rich intellectual biography is strengthened by her immersion in Macaulay's correspondence and, for this reason alone, it offers a significant advancement on Hill's pioneering study from 1992.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Green
• Assisted by: Green (Editor), Karen Green (Editor), Green Karen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190934453
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093445-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy; Oxford New Histories of Philos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Feminism and feminist theory, Western philosophy: Enlightenment