Eileen O'Neill, "Disappearing Ink: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0190086637 | 2025 | 376 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0190086637 | 2025 | 376 pages | PDF | 6 MB
When Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017) published her ground-breaking essay, "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy" in 1998, women philosophers were virtually absent from encyclopedias of philosophy and the numerous histories and anthologies of early modern thought. This essay would come to have an enormous impact, signaling the beginning of the movement to introduce early modern women philosophers into the canon. In its densely-packed 46 pages, "Disappearing Ink" presented the names, major works, and principal theses of literally dozens of forgotten women, whose works were published during the early modern period and who had engaged in correspondence with central male figures but whose names and works had since been erased.
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