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Description

1. xiv, 375 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.

Summary

1. "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."--

Series statement

1. AAR, American Academy of Religion. Reflection and theory in the study of religion

Uniform title

1. Reflection and theory in the study of religion.

Alternative title

1. Mary Wollstonecraft and a tradition of dissent

Subject

1. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
2. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 > Ethics
3. 1700-1799
4. Feminist ethics > England > History > 18th century
5. Ethics, Modern > 18th century
6. Virtue
7. Virtues > History > 18th century
8. Feminist theory
9. Virtues
10. Theories
11. Feminist ethics
12. Ethics, Modern
13. Ethics
14. England

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction: Who's Wollstonecraft? Which traditon? -- 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?

Call number

1. JFE 23-909

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and index.

Author

1. Dumler-Winckler, Emily, author.

Title

1. Modern virtue : Mary Wollstonecraft and a tradition of dissent / Emily Dumler-Winckler.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. AAR, American Academy of Religion. Reflection and theory in the study of religion
2. Reflection and theory in the study of religion.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1700-1799

Other form:

1. Online version: Dumler-Winckler, Emily. Modern virtue New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780197632116 (DLC) 2022003284

LCCN

1. 2022003283

ISBN

1. 9780197632093 hardcover
2. 0197632092 hardcover
3. 9780197632116 electronic publication
4. 9780197632123 electronic book

Research call number

1. JFE 23-909