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AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION

Modern Virtue

Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent

Dumler-Winckler, Emily (Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology, Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology, Saint Louis University)

Modern Virtue

AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION

Modern Virtue

Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent

AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION: Modern Virtue

 

Modern Virtue is the first book length treatment of Mary Wollstonecraft's theology and religion, the first to show the centrality of each for her account of the vrtues and revolution, and the first by a scholar in these fields.


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Beschrijving AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION: Modern Virtue

Modern societies are plagued with conflicts about basic beliefs, values, and ideals. What some call virtue, others count as vice. This book argues that the cultivation of the virtues as well as contestation about them are part and parcel of the goods that Christians and democratic societies share in common. Drawing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dumler-Winckler aims to dissolve the anxieties of both defenders and despisers of virtue ethics and so form a rapprochement. Influenced by religious dissenters in eighteenth-century England, Wollstonecraft revolutionized ancient traditions of the virtues in modern ways for feminist and abolitionist aims. For this modern feminist, as for premodern Christians, moral formation requires putting exemplars to the test of critical examination-discarding some, adopting others, and emulating the virtues of each.

By elaborating the specifically theological aspects of Wollstonecraft's account, this book demonstrates the important role religious traditions have played in feminism and radical socio-political movements in the modern era. By treating the relation between modern rights and virtues such as justice and friendship, Dumler-Winckler illuminates their vital relation and roles in modern democratic societies. With good reason, both modernity and virtue have cultured despisers. Modern Virtue provides an account of the virtues in modernity and, even, the virtues of modernity.


ISBN
9780197632093
Pagina's
408
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Serie
AAR REFLECTION AND THEORY STU RELIGION
NUR
770
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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