#38 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:54:31 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 The Profanely Erotic Bridegroom Passages in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum https://www.losguardo.net/it/the-profanely-erotic-bridegroom-passages-in-aemilia-lanyers-salve-deus-rex-judaeorum/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:02:28 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6086 CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Susan Lauffer O’Hara Arguing against many critics who posit that Aemilia Lanyer was a devout, pious Protestant, I focus on the biblical Song of Songs derived Bridegroom passages of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the yet unexplored intrusion of the narrator who confesses her profanity at the eroticization of the risen...

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]]> L’Illuminismo delle emozioni. Etica e politica della comunicazione nel «Nonsense of Common-sense» (1737-1738) di Lady Mary Wortley Montagu https://www.losguardo.net/it/lilluminismo-delle-emozioni/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:56:31 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6083 CONTRIBUTI / 9 / Roberto Bordoli The Enlightenment of emotions: Ethics and politics of communication in “Nonsense of Common-sense” (1737-1738) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The «Nonsense of Common-sense» (1737-1738) is the first journal edited in English by a woman. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), writer in the Georgian Era, supporter of the Court Party like...

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]]> Phénoménologie de la femme philosophe ‘agréée’. Émilie Du Châtelet et Laura Bassi https://www.losguardo.net/it/emilie-du-chatelet-et-laura-bassi/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:50:03 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6081 ARTICOLI / 2 / Elena Muceni Phenomenology of the ‘accredited’ woman philosopher: Émilie Du Châtelet and Laura Bassi The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the emergence, in the 1730s, of the figure of the ‘accredited’ woman philosopher, by examining the exogenous factors and endogenous impulses that enabled two pivotal figures...

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]]> La femme, la plume et l’épée. Un débat entre Marie-Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour et Sylvain Maréchal https://www.losguardo.net/it/la-femme-la-plume-et-lepee/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:58:01 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6078 CONTRIBUTI / 10 / Debora Sicco The woman, the pen and the sword. A debate between Marie-Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour and Sylvain Maréchal This article starts from the debate sparked by Sylvain Maréchal’s Projet d’une loi portant défense d’apprendre à lire aux femmes, known for its misogynistic thesis. Starting from the hypothesis that this inflammatory writing...

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]]> Agency, Authorship, and Authority in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manuals Written by Women https://www.losguardo.net/it/agency-authorship-and-authority-in-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century-midwifery-manuals-written-by-women/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:50:40 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6074 CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Martina Guzzetti This paper considers the manifold strategies used by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century midwives to actively take part both in the circulation of notions and evidence about pregnancy, labour, and childcare, and how they sought to regain control of such a gendered area of medicine as midwifery and obstetrics by countering...

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]]> Hierarchy of Beings and Equality of Men and Women in Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Philosophy https://www.losguardo.net/it/hierarchy-of-beings-and-equality-of-men-and-women-in-catharine-trotter-cockburns-philosophy/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:40:35 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6070 CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Sofia Beatriz Calvente In the early modern period the chain of being thesis was used by naturalists and philosophers to justify female subordination. My aim is to establish whether Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s endorsement of this thesis entails that differences between sexes assigns differentiating places in the scale or not. I will...

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]]> Caroline von Wolzogen e la Kleinöffentlichkeit. Strategie autoriali di esistenza tra anonimato e relazionalità https://www.losguardo.net/it/caroline-von-wolzogen-e-la-kleinoffentlichkeit/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:36:43 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6068 CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Chiara Maciocci Caroline von Wolzogen and the Kleinöffentlichkeit: Authoritative strategies of existence between anonymity and relationality This contribution aims to account for the role of the writer Caroline von Wolzogen in the sociocultural context of the Weimar Classicism. Specifically, an attempt will be made to focus on the writer’s choice to...

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]]> Authority in the Margins. Paratexts, Politics and History in Louise de Keralio’s Translations https://www.losguardo.net/it/paratexts-politics-and-history-in-louise-de-keralios-translations/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:27:55 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6066 CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Vicki Mistacco In her translations of the English travel writer John Carr, Voyage en Hollande and L’Etranger en Irlande, Louise de Keralio (1756-1822) turns a humble, “feminine” activity into an outlet for ideas. Adding copious paratexts (preliminary discourses, translator’s prefaces, translator’s notes, footnotes, a 225-page essay on Dutch commerce) that swell...

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]]> «Nulla succurri providentia potest». Le critiche di Eloisa al concetto di provvidenza divina nella lettera IV dell’Epistolario con Abelardo https://www.losguardo.net/it/le-critiche-di-eloisa-al-concetto-di-provvidenza-divina-nella-lettera-iv-dellepistolario-con-abelardo/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:20:37 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6064 CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Matteo Sperandini Nulla succurri providentia potest. ‘Eloise’s critique of the concept of divine providence in Letter iv of the Epistolary to Abelard In the conclusion of the Historia calamitatum mearum, Abelard asserts that every human misfortune is part of a divine design whose end is good. This observation lends itself well...

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]]> Elisabetta di Boemia: variazioni antropotecniche sul dualismo cartesiano https://www.losguardo.net/it/elisabetta-di-boemia-variazioni-antropotecniche-sul-dualismo-cartesiano/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:12:52 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6062 CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Salvatore Grandone Elizabeth of Bohemia: Anthropotechnic Variations on Cartesian Dualism This paper offers an anthropotechnic reading of the correspondence between Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia. Elizabeth places the question of cartesian dualism in an «ascetic» perspective (in the etymological sense of the term): understanding how mind and body interact serves to...

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