The Love of God and the Radical Enlightenment

Mary Astell's Brush with Spinoza

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4456893
AutoresSarah Ellenzweig (autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen64
Número3
Páginas379
Fecha de publicación2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2003.0037
OpenAlexW2079925249
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas9

The essay argues that Mary Astell’s support of the theocentric philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche embroiled her in the fray of anti-Spinozism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Because of her dawning awareness of contemporaries’ associations of Malebranche’s occasionalism with the Spinozist doctrine of one substance, Astell retracted her previous endorsement of this theory in 1694. When contemporaries briefly turned the accusation of Spinozism against Locke and his followers in the early 1700s, however, Astell felt free to return to a support of Malebranche

Brush · Doctrine · Enlightenment · False accusation · Political science · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought