Sandrine Bergès - The Wollstonecraftian Mind

There has been a rising interest in the study of Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) in philosophy, political theory, literary studies, and the history of political thought in recent decades. The Wollstonecraftian Mind seeks to provide a comprehensive survey of her work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising 38 chapters by a team of international contributors this handbook covers:

• the background to Wollstonecrafts work
• Wollstonecrafts major works
• the relationship between Wollstonecraft and other major philosophers
• Wollstonecraftian philosophy
• Wollstonecrafts legacy

Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Wollstonecrafts work is central to the study of political philosophy, literature, French studies, political thought, and feminism.

Sandrine Bergs is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics (2015).

Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and the author or editor of seven books. Her latest titles are Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Womens Human Rights (2016) and Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein (2017).

Alan Coffee teaches Global Ethics and Human Values at Kings College London, UK. He is the co-editor with Sandrine Bergs of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2016).

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Ruth Abbey is Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a political theorist with research interests in the areas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Taylor, Feminist Political Thought, Liberal Political Thought, and Animal Ethics.

Madeline Ahmed Cronin is an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara California, USA. Her research interests include feminist political philosophy, virtue ethics, and the relationships between classism, taste, and contemporary civil discourse. She is the author of Mary Wollstonecrafts Conception of True Taste and Its Role in Egalitarian Education and Citizenship in the European Journal of Political Theory.

Sandrine Bergs is Associate Professor in philosophy at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Companion to Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics (2015). She also co-edited The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2016) with Alan Coffee. She runs the blog Feminist History of Philosophy.

Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and the author or editor of seven books. Her latest books are Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Womens Human Rights (2016) and Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein (2017).

Isabelle Bour is Professor of eighteenth-century British studies at the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris, France). She has published widely on Mary Wollstonecraft. Her edition of those works by Wollstonecraft that were translated into French in the eighteenth century was published by Editions Classiques Garnier in 2016.

Lorna Bracewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Flagler College, Florida, USA. Her scholarship focuses on feminist theory and the history of political thought and has been published in academic journals like Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and popular forums like the Washington Post.

Jacqueline Broad is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Her main area of expertise is early modern philosophy. Her recent books include The Philosophy of Mary Astell (2015) and an edited volume (with Karen Detlefsen) Women and Liberty, 16001800 (2017).

Laura Brace is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests include the politics of property, self-ownership and the social, sexual, and racial contracts, and the political thought of Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Hegel. Her latest book is on The Politics of Slavery (2018).

Christopher Brooke is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he is a Fellow of Homerton College. He is the author of Philosophic Pride (2012), the co-editor with Elizabeth Frazer of Ideas of Education (2013), and the editor of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (2017).

Liane Carlson, is the Henry R. Luce Initiative in Religion in International Affairs Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. Her research interests include philosophy of religion, with particular emphasis on German Idealism and Romanticism, embodiment, and the intersection of religion and literature. She is the author of Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Meaning and Experience (2019).

Ross Carroll is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Exeter, UK. His research is in the history of political thought with a particular focus on the third earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Thematically his work mainly deals with issues surrounding the passions, fanaticism, religious toleration, censorship, and (more recently) womens hidden intellectual labour. He is currently writing a monograph on the use and abuse of ridicule in the British Enlightenment.

Alan Coffee teaches Global Ethics and Human Values at Kings College London, UK. His primary interest is in republican theories of social and political freedom, with a particular focus on the recovery and reappraisal of neglected and marginalized voices within that tradition. He is the co-editor with Sandrine Bergs of a volume of essays on the