Nastassja Pugliese (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Nísia Floresta

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element presents the defense of education by Nisia Floresta as a strategy against colonialism, stating that education should aim towards physical and intellectual emancipation, restoring the lost dignity of individuals. Floresta's works thus foreground slavery and colonization as events that shaped philosophical modernity.

Produktdetails

• Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 112g
• ISBN-13: 9781009124133
• ISBN-10: 1009124137
• Artikelnr.: 67608273

Inhaltsangabe

1. A woman philosopher in post-colonial Brazil
2. Beyond the 'Brazilian Wollstonecraft' myth
3. Floresta: translator of the anonymous Sophia and author of her own vindicatory works
4. Equality: from naturally given to a measure of social justice
5. The colonialist principle: instrumentalization of suffering as a strategy of domination
6. Dignity as true liberation: educating for physical and intellectual emancipation
7. Locating Floresta in the history of philosophy
Nísia Floresta's works
Posthumous editions
References.