The Eloquence of Mary AstellUniversity of Calgary Press, 2005 - 202 sivua The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate. |
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... mind from the body . Women had been thought to be dominated by the body and its passions to such an extent that their reason was disabled . Descartes's philosophy allowed them to identify themselves with the rational and spiritual , to ...
... Mind in General . II Of Particular Capacities . III The most common Infirmities incident to the Undestanding and their Cure . IV A Natural Logic , And V. Rhetoric propos'd . VI The Application and Use of our Knowledge " ( 99 ) . Here ...
... Minds to learn it , you may if you please take in the assis- tance of some well chosen book , but a good Natural ... Mind ; so as we say we see Objects Clearly , when being present to our Eyes they sufficiently Act on ' em , and our ...
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