Naomi Zack: Bachelors of Science

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A revolutionary look at the intellectual and social mileu within which early modern philosophers invented scientific identities<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394352&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1191_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Bachelors of Science</h1> <H2>Seventeenth Century Identity, Then and Now</H2> <h3>Naomi Zack</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-435-X $79.50, May 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-436-8 $36.95, May 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 264 pp 6x9 </P><p>Naomi Zack begins this extraordinary book with the premise that if one is to understand Western conceptions of racialized and gendered identity, one needs to go back to a period when such categories were not salient and examine how notions of identity in the seventeenth century were fundamentally different from subsequent constructions. The seventeenth century is the last time, for example, that Europeans had any contact with non-Europeans without racializing them. From the eighteenth century onward, race becomes a central category for Europeans in their transactions with a different world, and gender undergoes radical transformation. <p>Zack takes the reader through a lucid tour of the lives, times, and writings of such key "bachelors of Science" as Bacon, Descartes, Newton, and Gassendi. The book situates these empiricist philosophers and their canonical reputations within the larger framework of the de facto "masculinization of science" and "scientizing of masculinity" in the seventeenth century, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of these key thinkers of the period. <p>Other fascinating issues examined in this book include pre-racial conceptions of slavery, witchcraft trials and their connection to homosociality, and the highly sexualized nature of women's identity in the seventeenth century. Zack points out the link between elite bachelorhood, the profession of philosophy, and scientific pursuit as recreational activity. This book is a must for understanding the historical and philosophical precedents of modern scientific identity, race, and gender. <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction: Philosophy, History, and Criticism <p><b>Part I: The Intellectual Context of the New Science</b> <br>1. Feminist Criticism <br>2. Descartes' Doubt and Pyrrhonic Skepticism <br>3. The <I>Via Media</I> and English Empiricism <p><b>Part II: The New Identities</b> <br>4. Bachelors in Life <br>5. Locke's Forensic Self <br>6. Propriety and Civic Identity <br>7. Protestant Difference and Toleration <br>8. The Royal Society <br>9. Hypotheses non Fingo <p><b>Part III: The Unidentified</b> <br>10. Abuses and Uses of Children <br>11. Wifemen and Feminists <br>12. Slavery without Race <br>13. Witches and Magi <br>14. The Wealth of Nature <p>Afterword: Where Do We Go from There? <br>Notes <br>Select Bibliography <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1191_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Naomi Zack </B>is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at State University New York at Albany and the author of <I><a href="1004_reg.html" target="_top">Race and Mixed Race</a></I> (Temple).</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/philosophy.html" TARGET="_top">Philosophy and Ethics</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/themes_philo.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Themes in the History of Philosophy</a></i>, edited by Edith Wyschogrod. </p><p><I>Themes in the History of Philosophy</I>, edited by Edith Wyschogrod, will serve as a collection of outstanding work in the history of philosophy. It will include interpretations of significant themes, problems, and tendencies in the history of thought; studies of important thinkers, schools, and movements; and inquiries into the relation of previous philosophies to literature, art, and history.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394352&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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