Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccol- Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-02
Mått:157 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ideas in Context
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108487054

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Anna Becker is Professor MSO of the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. She has published widely on topics in early modern political thought and political culture, including political Aristotelianism, oeconomics and gender, and colonial masculinities. She was awarded the Balzan–Skinner Fellowship for Modern Intellectual History 2014/15.

Recensioner i media

'Becker offers a convincing argument regarding the perceived political nature of the domestic sphere in the Renaissance.' Yael Manes, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought; 2. Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion; 3. Jean Bodin and the politics of the family; 4. Inclusions and exclusions; 5. Sovereign men and subjugated women: the invention of a tradition; Conclusion: from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.