Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes è stato un filosofo inglese, antesignano del giuspositivismo e autore nel 1651 dell'opera di filosofia politica Leviatano. Oltre che di teoria politica si interessò e scrisse anche di storia, geometria, etica ed economia. La descrizione di Hobbes della natura umana come sostanzialmente competitiva ed egoista.

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John Locke

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John Locke (1632-1704) è stato un filosofo inglese, considerato uno dei più influenti pensatori dell'Illuminismo e uno dei padri del liberalismo classico. Le sue idee hanno avuto un impatto profondo sulla filosofia politica, l'epistemologia e la pedagogia.

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However, her work wasn't embraced or widely anthologized until nearly 50 years after her novels were published. Here are 5 reasons why Woolf should be one of your feminist icons:

• She was chiefly interested in and wrote about the inner lives of women.
• She lived in a time when she was granted few rights, but turned the setback into a strength.
• She was progressive in her feminism, and even made the connection between a patriarchal society and militarism.
• She believed deeply in the power of the individual.
• She saw sexuality and gender as fluid.

Source: Huffpost.com

Virginia Woolf is now accepted as an extremely important literary figure and an early feminist.

However, her work wasn't embraced or widely anthologized until nearly 50 years after her novels were published. Here are 5 reasons why Woolf should be one of your feminist icons:

• She was chiefly interested in and wrote about the inner lives of women.
• She lived in a time when she was granted few rights, but turned the setback into a strength.
• She was progressive in her feminism, and even made the connection between a patriarchal society and militarism.
• She believed deeply in the power of the individual.
• She saw sexuality and gender as fluid.

Source: Huffpost.com

Woolf's work was influenced by prominent writers and artists of the time such as Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky, and the Post-Impressionists.

Family summers in coastal Cornwall also shaped Woolf indelibly, exposing her to the ocean as a source of literary inspiration and creating memories she would fictionalize for her acclaimed novel, To the Lighthouse.

Stravinsky and Proust

Stravinsky and Proust

Some books by Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• To the Lighthouse (1927)
• A room of One's Own (1929)
• Between the Acts (1939)