{"id":1026,"date":"2019-04-08T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:15:15","slug":"the-philosophy-in-frankenstein-talk-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"The philosophy in Frankenstein (talk in Belfast, March 28 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/awb64\" >Alex Barber<\/a> gave a talk on Mary Shelley&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em> as part of the Belfast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imaginebelfast.com\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/imaginebelfast.com');\"><em>Imagine<\/em><\/a> festival on March 28th. In it, he talked about the surprising presence within\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mary\u00a0<\/span>Shelley\u2019s famous and much-loved novel of\u00a0her mother and father \u2013 the philosophers\u00a0Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.<\/p>\n<p>Wollstonecraft, who was called \u2018a\u00a0hyena in petticoats\u2019 and a &#8216;philosophizing serpent&#8217; (and worse) by male critics,\u00a0is best\u00a0known today for her revolutionary manifesto, <em>A\u00a0Vindication of the Rights of Woman<\/em>, one of\u00a0the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She died\u00a0ten days after giving birth to Mary Shelley\u00a0but, as Alex explained in his talk, her ideas live on in the words of her daughter&#8217;s extraordinary novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Barber gave a talk on Mary Shelley&#8217;s\u00a0Frankenstein as part of the Belfast\u00a0Imagine festival on March 28th. In it, he talked about the surprising presence within\u00a0Mary\u00a0Shelley\u2019s famous and much-loved novel of\u00a0her mother and father \u2013 the philosophers\u00a0Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Wollstonecraft, who was called \u2018a\u00a0hyena in petticoats\u2019 and a &#8216;philosophizing serpent&#8217; (and worse) by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}