Lisa T Sarasohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa T Sarasohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa T |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarasohn |
| SIGNATURE | SARASOHN L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Getting Under Our Skin
Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
Journal Article Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Get access Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xviii, 398. $45.00. Lisa T. Sarasohn Lisa T. Sarasohn Emerita Oregon State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 2, Apri…
Margaret Cavendish, William Newcastle, and Political Marginalization
In 1668, Margaret Cavendish introduced her Plays, Never Before Printed with a refrain common in her works: “It is most certain, That those who perform Publick Actions, expose themselves to Publick censures.” She had learned this lesson, not only from the ridicule and incredulity her own works provoked, but also because of her husband's experiences during the Civil War and Restoration. William Newcastle, she writes in her biography of the Duke, “h…
Who was Then the Gentleman
"The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays. Margaret Cavendish , Anne Shaver
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Anna Battigelli
Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle
This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal of both his mentor and other natural philosophers. When Hobbes offered his ideas on optics, motion, politics, and philosoph…
Gassendi's Ethics
This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics discloses the underlying unity of his philosophy and elucidates this critical figure in the intellectual revolution.Sarasohn demonstrates that Gassendi's ethics was an …
Galileo, Courtier
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and the Patronage of the New Science in the Seventeenth Century
Gassendi the Atomist
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Motion and Morality
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi L. T. SARASOHN THE EnRLV seventeenth-century French philosopher and cleric Pierre Gassendi has been largely forgotten in modern times, except perhaps as a footnote to Descartes's Meditationes. 1 Yet, in his own time Gassendi was regarded as the intellectual peer of Descartes, and he represented a fundamental difference in philosophic orientation. While Descartes tried to rescue philosophic c…
Motion and Morality
Who was Then the Gentleman
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi L. T. SARASOHN THE EnRLV seventeenth-century French philosopher and cleric Pierre Gassendi has been largely forgotten in modern times, except perhaps as a footnote to Descartes's Meditationes. 1 Yet, in his own time Gassendi was regarded as the intellectual peer of Descartes, and he represented a fundamental difference in philosophic orientation. While Descartes tried to rescue philosophic c…
Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle
This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal of both his mentor and other natural philosophers. When Hobbes offered his ideas on optics, motion, politics, and philosoph…
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi
The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi L. T. SARASOHN THE EnRLV seventeenth-century French philosopher and cleric Pierre Gassendi has been largely forgotten in modern times, except perhaps as a footnote to Descartes's Meditationes. 1 Yet, in his own time Gassendi was regarded as the intellectual peer of Descartes, and he represented a fundamental difference in philosophic orientation. While Descartes tried to rescue philosophic c…
Motion and Morality
Gassendi the Atomist
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and the Patronage of the New Science in the Seventeenth Century
Gassendi's Ethics
This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics discloses the underlying unity of his philosophy and elucidates this critical figure in the intellectual revolution.Sarasohn demonstrates that Gassendi's ethics was an …
Galileo, Courtier
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Anna Battigelli
Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle
This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal of both his mentor and other natural philosophers. When Hobbes offered his ideas on optics, motion, politics, and philosoph…
"The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays. Margaret Cavendish , Anne Shaver
Who was Then the Gentleman
Margaret Cavendish, William Newcastle, and Political Marginalization
In 1668, Margaret Cavendish introduced her Plays, Never Before Printed with a refrain common in her works: “It is most certain, That those who perform Publick Actions, expose themselves to Publick censures.” She had learned this lesson, not only from the ridicule and incredulity her own works provoked, but also because of her husband's experiences during the Civil War and Restoration. William Newcastle, she writes in her biography of the Duke, “h…
Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
Journal Article Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Get access Richard Yeo. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xviii, 398. $45.00. Lisa T. Sarasohn Lisa T. Sarasohn Emerita Oregon State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 2, Apri…
Getting Under Our Skin
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