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Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA For many years, Cavendish's philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning's book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker. - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia

Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA For many years, Cavendish's philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning's book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker. - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia Cunning's Cavendish offers an extraordinarily thorough, engaging, and persuasive description and analysis of Cavendish's philosophical vision, including her epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, and even her theology. - Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University

Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA For many years, Cavendish's philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning's book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker. - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia

"""Finally, a full-dress account of Margaret Cavendish's philosophical ideas. Helpfully comparing her positions to those of more familiar philosophers, David Cunning gives a clear and sympathetic exploration of Cavendish's arguments."" - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA ""For many years, Cavendish’s philosophical writings have cried out for serious, systematic interpretation. At long last, we have David Cunning’s book. Careful, scholarly, precise, lucid, accessible, and comprehensive - it is an absolutely invaluable introduction to the thought of this complex and highly original thinker."" - Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Australia"

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David Cunning is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations (2010), and Everyday Examples: An Introduction to Philosophy (2014), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations (2014).

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