Is Margaret Cavendish worthy of study today?

Broad, Jacqueline

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.02.004

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“…As early as [82], the ubiquity of sense and reason is suggested to imply that "Vegetables & Minerals may know/As Man, though like to Trees and stones they grow" ("Of Sense and Reason exercised in their different shapes", p. 56). [42], expressing the standard view (as also seen in, e.g., [83], p. 499; [84], p. 459; [85], p. 87, note 15 and p. 90, note 23; [10], Section 2; [86], Section 1; [87], p. 286; [5], esp. Section 2c; [88], pp.…”

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A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science

Shaheen

2022

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This paper reconstructs Margaret Cavendish’s theory of the metaphysics of artifacts. It situates her anti-mechanist account of artifactual production and the art-nature distinction against a background of Aristotelian, Scholastic, and mechanist theories. Within this broad context, it considers what Cavendish thinks artisans can actually do, grounding her terminological stipulation that there is no genuine generation in nature in a commitment to natural and artistic production as the mere rearrangement of bodies. Bodies themselves are identified, in a conceptually Ockhamist manner, with their figures, so that the resulting theory of mere rearrangement is Scholastically respectable. The paper also offers literal interpretations, focused narrowly on the philosophical content of her theories of art and artifacts, of her claims that art concerns only “nature’s sporting or playing actions”, that its products are “deformed and defective”, and that they are “at best …mixt or hermaphroditical."

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A Vitalist Shoal in the Mechanist Tide: Art, Nature, and 17th-Century Science

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2022

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“…Ella es vitalista, al menos, en el sentido de que piensa que todos los fenómenos materiales se explican a partir de un principio vital. Para Lisa Sarasohn, esto es un tipo de vitalismo materialista, a propósito de lo cual, Jacqueline Broad (2011) escribe: Esto es exacto si definimos el vitalismo como la teoría de que todos los fenómenos de la vida son explicables en términos de algún principio vital. Pero [Lucas] Cavendish sostiene que "cada parte integrada en el todo no solo tiene movimiento propio; también tiene percepción, razón, imaginación y pasión" (Sarasohn, 2010, p. 119).…”

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