Disappearing ink

• Verfasst von: O'Neill, Eileen [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Disappearing ink
• Titelzusatz: essays in early modern philosophy
• Verf.angabe: Eileen O'Neill
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 2, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008666-4
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780190086664.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Philosophy
• Sach-SW: History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
• K10plus-PPN: 1919524908
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

When Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017) published her ground-breaking essay, 'Disappearing Ink' in 1998, women philosophers were virtually absent from encyclopedias of philosophy and the numerous histories and anthologies of early modern thought. This essay would come to have an enormous impact, signaling the beginning of the movement to introduce early modern women philosophers into the canon. This volume republishes that essay and presents it in the context of O'Neill's subsequent work, some of it well-known and influential, alongside other pieces that are harder to locate. Combined, these works trace the complete arc of O'Neill's thought, from painstaking studies of individual themes and figures to a sweeping vision of how feminism should inform our approach to the history of early modern thought - indeed, to the history of philosophy more generally.

Abstract

"This Introduction provides an overview of the work of Eileen O'Neill, focusing on her writings on feminist historiography of philosophy, the equality of the sexes, and causation. Topics include: the idea of a feminist history of early modern though; O'Neill's response to Michèle Le Dœuff's challenge that women philosophers must inevitably occupy the subordinate "Heloise position"; O'Neill's treatment of the "gendered mind" in Descartes, Poullain de le Barre, and Madame de Lambert; and, as a case study in feminist historiography, her writings on Margaret Cavendish on natural change"--