Rediscovering Women Philosophers Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy Book

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Preface	ix
1	Introduction	1
	Preliminaries	1
	The Exclusion	2
	The Dominant Model of Moral Philosophy	5
	Philosophical Genre and the Dominant Model	8
	Five Forms, Five Philosophers	11
2	Catharine Macaulay's Letters on Education: What Constitutes a Philosophical System	17
	Biography	18
	Letters on Education	19
	The Problems of the Epistolary Form	23
	Macaulay's Work	28
	The Argument for Women	35
	The Second and Third Parts of Letters on Education	36
	The Argument of Letters on Education	42
	Conclusion	44
3	Allegory and Moral Philosophy in Christine de Pisan's The Book of the City of Ladies	47
	Christine de Pisan	49
	The Book of the City of Ladies	51
	The Situation of Women	55
	Women and Moral Agency	57
	The Question of Marriage	58
	The Prudent Woman	62
	The Problem	66
	The Allegorical City	68
	The Need for Allegory	71
	Problems with the City	75
	Conclusion	76
4	Mary Wollstonecraft and the Separation of Poetry and Politics	81
	Wollstonecraft's Corpus	84
	The Second Vindication as an Enlightenment Treatise	89
	The Second Vindication Is Not a Work of Enlightenment Philosophy	92
	Principles of Form and Expression	95
	Form and Sensibility	101
	True Sensibility	104
	The Philosophical Role of Sensibility	111
	Conclusion	119
5	George Eliot and How to Read Novels as Philosophy	123
	Eliot's Work	124
	Comte, Spinoza, and Eliot	126
	How to Read Eliot	131
	The Centrality of Sympathy in Eliot's Novels	135
	Philosophy	144
	Conclusion	145
6	Knowing and Speaking of Divine Love: Mechthild of Magdeburg	149
	Biography	152
	Women and Writing	155
	The Problem of Authority	156
	The Authorship of God	159
	Morality and Experience	162
	The Forms in the Flowing Light	166
	Conclusion: Contingencies	171
7	Conclusion	175
	Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy	175
	A Few Comments on Content	180
	Reference	187
	Index	193