God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish by Brandie R. Siegfried,Lisa T. Sarasohn

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By Brandie R. Siegfried,Lisa T. Sarasohn

only in the near past have students all started to notice Margaret Cavendish’s references to 'God,' 'spirits,' and the 'rational soul,' and little has been released during this regard. This quantity addresses that shortage via taking over the theological threads woven into Cavendish’s principles approximately nature, subject, magic, governance, and social relatives, with specified consciousness given to Cavendish’s literary and philosophical works. Reflecting the full of life country of Cavendish reports, God and Nature within the considered Margaret Cavendish makes it possible for disagreements one of the contributing authors, whose readings of Cavendish occasionally range in major methods; and it encourages additional exploration of the theological parts glaring in her literary and philosophical works. regardless of the variety of notion constructed right here, numerous major issues of convergence determine a starting place for destiny paintings on Cavendish’s imaginative and prescient of nature, philosophy, and God. The chapters accumulated the following increase our realizing of the intriguing-and occasionally brilliant-contributions Cavendish made to debates approximately God’s position within the clinical cosmos.

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