Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy

Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy written by S. Bahar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading to position her in relation to other eighteenth century writers this book demonstrates how she is directly engaged in re-thinking key concepts in moral aesthetic and social philosophy, particularly where women are concerned. Bahar insists that Wollstonecraft's political claims cannot be separated from her desire to develop more convincing aesthetic representations of women.