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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings Hardback - 2003

by Margaret Cavendish; Susan James (Editor)

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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.

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If you wonder, that I join a work of fancy to my serious philosophical contemplations; think not that it is out of a disparagement to philosophy; or out of an opinion, as if this noble study were but a fiction of the mind; for though philosophers may err in searching and enquiring after the causes of natural effects, and many times embrace falsehoods for truths; yet this doth not prove, that the ground of philosophy is merely fiction, but the error proceeds from the different motions of reason, which cause different opinions in different parts, and in some are more irregular than in others; for reason being dividable, because material, cannot move in all parts alike; and since there is but one truth in nature, all those that hit not this truth, do err, some more, some less; for though some may come nearer the mark than others, which makes their opinions seem more probable and rational than others, yet as long as they swerve from this only truth, they are in the wrong: nevertheless, all do ground their opinions upon

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  • Title Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings
  • Author Margaret Cavendish; Susan James (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 346
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2003-08-28
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780521633499 / 0521633494
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1250
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Political science, Utopias
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002041448
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.4
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