Modern Virtue
Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 November 2022
- ISBN 9780197632093
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 164x237x30 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illustrations 245
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Short description:
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. While Wollstonecraft is canonical in many other fields, she is mostly unknown or ignored in virtue ethics, theology, and religion. This book remedies this omission and the prevalent narratives sustained by it in the latter as well as predominant views of her religion and virtue in the former.
MoreLong description:
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.
The fact that Dumler Winckler has so ably demonstrated Wollstonecraft's relevance to contemporary debates is all the more reason to celebrate this book. While it may be the first book of its kind, Modern Virtue--s convincing case for Wollstonecraft's significance to religious ethics almost certainly guarantees that it will not be the last. The field will no doubt be richer for it.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Who's Wollstonecraft? Which Traditions?
1. Dissenting Devotional Taste: The Virtues of Madness
2. Staging a Tragicomic Revolution: The Virtues of Ethical Conflict
3. Imitating Christ: Virtues and Sexed Semblances
4. On Justice: Virtues and Rights
5. On Love: Virtues and Political Friendship
Conclusion: What is Modern Virtue?
Bibliography
Index
