Book contents
- Margaret Cavendish
- Margaret Cavendish
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- In Memoriam
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I History of Science
- Part II Philosophy
- Part III Literature
- Part IV Politics
- Part V New Directions
- Afterword
- Chronology of Works by Margaret Cavendish
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Afterword
Margaret Cavendish: A Grandmother for Twenty-First Century Philosophy of Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2022
Book contents
- Margaret Cavendish
- Margaret Cavendish
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- In Memoriam
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I History of Science
- Part II Philosophy
- Part III Literature
- Part IV Politics
- Part V New Directions
- Afterword
- Chronology of Works by Margaret Cavendish
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Never-resolved problems of seventeenth-century metaphysics – the mind/body divide, nature conceived as alive or as a great, dead machine, and attendant questions about life and agency – have returned to haunt contemporary science. Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the ways in which these persistent philosophical dilemmas connect Cavendish’s monist, dynamic, organicist philosophy to much later thought in phenomenology, contemporary critiques in the philosophy of biology, and to Whitehead’s radical process philosophy.
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- Margaret CavendishAn Interdisciplinary Perspective, pp. 274 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022