"A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of The Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning storyteller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud is a figurative replication of the process of oral poe…
Plato's forms: varieties of interpretation
Concepts of nature: ancient and modern
This volume focuses on the question of how and why the concept of nature has changed its meaning in modernity and whether a rearticulation of premodern ideas about nature is possible in the modern world. Building on the work of Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, Bernard Lonergan, John …
The guardian question -- Philosopher queens -- Theology and philosophy -- The 1500s as a time of change -- Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke -- Katherine Parr, queen consort -- Elizabeth I -- Science and philosophy -- The 1600s and intellectual ferment -- Margaret Ca…
