POSTPONED: PRIVACY Book Launch: ‘Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth’
New book by Anna Becker, Professor MSO at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University.
About the book:
This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccol- Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.
About the author:
Anna Becker is Professor MSO in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus University. She has published widely on topics in early modern political thought and political culture, including political Aristotelianism, oeconomics and gender and colonial masculinities. Anna Becker is a former postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Privacy Studies.
Book launch programme TBA