Sylvana Tomaselli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvana Tomaselli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvana |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomaselli |
| SIGNATURE | TOMASELLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9097-4137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Despotism and the Status of Women in the 18th century
Despotism and the Status of Women in the 18th century
The Enlightenment We Want
Why do we care about the Enlightenment, what it was, whether there was such a thing, who was or was not part of it, whether it ended or not?Do we care about the Renaissance, what it was, where it was, who was or was not part of it, whether it ended or not?What, if anything, do we gain from this kind of questioning?What is achieved by corralling authors, artists, musicians, or public figures under a label?And, more generally, what is the merit of …
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy
In praise of grand historical narratives
The long eighteenth century was a good time for history and historians. This article considers one of its most original genres, conjectural history, and of one of conjectural history’s most interesting subjects, woman. What made the conjectural history of woman most interesting was not only that it brought together all the elements that were themselves the subjects of theoretical histories, such as language, the arts and sciences, society, religi…
Plato goes to China
Affairs 99: 5
The art of being in the eighteenth century
This article offers some reflections on the importance Adam Smith accorded to luck in The Wealth of Nations. While the place of moral luck in The Theory of Moral Sentiments has been the subject of some scholarly attention, this has not been the case for luck in his best-known work. It focuses on what Smith thought particularly striking about our estimation of our own good fortune and argues that it accentuated the need for trustworthiness and tru…
Wollstonecraft
The Female Philosopher and her Afterlives
Deborah Weiss's study aims to offer a new understanding of “feminist literary history at a time when ideas of female character and opinions about the appropriate role for female intellectuality wer
Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism
This book is part of a collection, ‘The Enlightenment World’, published under the general editorship of Michael T. Davis, which features monographs on topics ranging from English Deism to Ballooning in Europe. The series includes works more closely related to the subject of the book under review, such as David O’Shaughnessy’s William Godwin and the Theatre (2010) and Emma Macleod’s British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities (2013…
Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
The article reviews the book "Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory," by Nancy J. Hirschmann.
The Death and Rebirth of Character in the Eighteenth Century
The following reflections on the eighteenth-century conception of the self are grounded in the view that we are shaped by the spirit of the age in which we live. Whatever its status today, such a view was deemed neither embarrassingly trite, nor highly controversial in the eighteenth century. The reasons for this are complex and rather surprising not least because much was said and written by eighteenth-century men, as well as women, both about t…
Montesquieu's Science of Politics
1St John's College, Cambridge Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on ‘The Spirit of Laws’ David W.CarrithersMichael A.MosherPaul A.Rahe Lanham, MDRowman & Littlefield 2000458$70 Paperback$26.95
Small Change
1St John's College, Cambridge Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 HarrietGuest ChicagoU. of Chicago P. 2001352$49 Paperback$20
Political Economy
We are rich in knowledge of the history of political economy. However, this chapter asks: Have we the history of an invention? Have we the history of two inventions, of two epistemic watersheds? The chapter suggests that the notion of invention and the quest for founding fathers is a potentially hazardous intellectual activity. It favors the search for discontinuities and can lead to distortions about the context in which particular schools of th…
Responses to the French Revolution
Women in the West
Remembering Marv Wollstonecraft on the Bicentenary of the Publication of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Essay Review
Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman
Collecting women
Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe
Sylvana Tomaselli, Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe, Population and Development Review, Vol. 14, Supplement: Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions (1988), pp. 7-29
The Enlightenment Debate on Women
Journal Article The Enlightenment Debate on Women Get access Sylvana Tomaselli Sylvana Tomaselli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, Autumn 1985, Pages 101-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/20.1.101 Published: 01 October 1985
The First Person
Descartes, pere mythique de la modernite dans sa creation du je et de la personne. Ses predecesseurs. Sa reception au 18 siecle, notamment par l'Encyclopedie. L'accomplissement du dualisme cartesien par Locke a travers sa critique du moi comme substance chez Descartes
The Enlightenment Debate on Women
Journal Article The Enlightenment Debate on Women Get access Sylvana Tomaselli Sylvana Tomaselli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, Autumn 1985, Pages 101-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/20.1.101 Published: 01 October 1985
Montesquieu's Science of Politics
1St John's College, Cambridge Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on ‘The Spirit of Laws’ David W.CarrithersMichael A.MosherPaul A.Rahe Lanham, MDRowman & Littlefield 2000458$70 Paperback$26.95
Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman
Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe
Sylvana Tomaselli, Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe, Population and Development Review, Vol. 14, Supplement: Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions (1988), pp. 7-29
In praise of grand historical narratives
The long eighteenth century was a good time for history and historians. This article considers one of its most original genres, conjectural history, and of one of conjectural history’s most interesting subjects, woman. What made the conjectural history of woman most interesting was not only that it brought together all the elements that were themselves the subjects of theoretical histories, such as language, the arts and sciences, society, religi…
Plato goes to China
Affairs 99: 5
The art of being in the eighteenth century
This article offers some reflections on the importance Adam Smith accorded to luck in The Wealth of Nations. While the place of moral luck in The Theory of Moral Sentiments has been the subject of some scholarly attention, this has not been the case for luck in his best-known work. It focuses on what Smith thought particularly striking about our estimation of our own good fortune and argues that it accentuated the need for trustworthiness and tru…
Collecting women
The First Person
Descartes, pere mythique de la modernite dans sa creation du je et de la personne. Ses predecesseurs. Sa reception au 18 siecle, notamment par l'Encyclopedie. L'accomplissement du dualisme cartesien par Locke a travers sa critique du moi comme substance chez Descartes
The Enlightenment Debate on Women
Journal Article The Enlightenment Debate on Women Get access Sylvana Tomaselli Sylvana Tomaselli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, Autumn 1985, Pages 101-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/20.1.101 Published: 01 October 1985
Collecting women
Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe
Sylvana Tomaselli, Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth Century Europe, Population and Development Review, Vol. 14, Supplement: Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions (1988), pp. 7-29
Essay Review
Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman
Remembering Marv Wollstonecraft on the Bicentenary of the Publication of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Women in the West
Political Economy
We are rich in knowledge of the history of political economy. However, this chapter asks: Have we the history of an invention? Have we the history of two inventions, of two epistemic watersheds? The chapter suggests that the notion of invention and the quest for founding fathers is a potentially hazardous intellectual activity. It favors the search for discontinuities and can lead to distortions about the context in which particular schools of th…
Responses to the French Revolution
The Death and Rebirth of Character in the Eighteenth Century
The following reflections on the eighteenth-century conception of the self are grounded in the view that we are shaped by the spirit of the age in which we live. Whatever its status today, such a view was deemed neither embarrassingly trite, nor highly controversial in the eighteenth century. The reasons for this are complex and rather surprising not least because much was said and written by eighteenth-century men, as well as women, both about t…
Montesquieu's Science of Politics
1St John's College, Cambridge Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on ‘The Spirit of Laws’ David W.CarrithersMichael A.MosherPaul A.Rahe Lanham, MDRowman & Littlefield 2000458$70 Paperback$26.95
Small Change
1St John's College, Cambridge Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 HarrietGuest ChicagoU. of Chicago P. 2001352$49 Paperback$20
Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
The article reviews the book "Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory," by Nancy J. Hirschmann.
Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism
This book is part of a collection, ‘The Enlightenment World’, published under the general editorship of Michael T. Davis, which features monographs on topics ranging from English Deism to Ballooning in Europe. The series includes works more closely related to the subject of the book under review, such as David O’Shaughnessy’s William Godwin and the Theatre (2010) and Emma Macleod’s British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities (2013…
The Female Philosopher and her Afterlives
Deborah Weiss's study aims to offer a new understanding of “feminist literary history at a time when ideas of female character and opinions about the appropriate role for female intellectuality wer
Wollstonecraft
The art of being in the eighteenth century
This article offers some reflections on the importance Adam Smith accorded to luck in The Wealth of Nations. While the place of moral luck in The Theory of Moral Sentiments has been the subject of some scholarly attention, this has not been the case for luck in his best-known work. It focuses on what Smith thought particularly striking about our estimation of our own good fortune and argues that it accentuated the need for trustworthiness and tru…
In praise of grand historical narratives
The long eighteenth century was a good time for history and historians. This article considers one of its most original genres, conjectural history, and of one of conjectural history’s most interesting subjects, woman. What made the conjectural history of woman most interesting was not only that it brought together all the elements that were themselves the subjects of theoretical histories, such as language, the arts and sciences, society, religi…
Plato goes to China
Affairs 99: 5
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy
Despotism and the Status of Women in the 18th century
Despotism and the Status of Women in the 18th century
The Enlightenment We Want
Why do we care about the Enlightenment, what it was, whether there was such a thing, who was or was not part of it, whether it ended or not?Do we care about the Renaissance, what it was, where it was, who was or was not part of it, whether it ended or not?What, if anything, do we gain from this kind of questioning?What is achieved by corralling authors, artists, musicians, or public figures under a label?And, more generally, what is the merit of …
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