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MARGARET CAVENDISH. ESCRITURA, ESTILO Y FILOSOFÍA NATURAL* * Una versión preliminar de este artículo se presentó en el I Coloquio Mujeres y pensamiento filosófico en la Universidad del Bosque, Bogotá, agosto de 2014). Este artículo es un resultado del proyecto de investigación Escritura, filosofía y vida (DCS-407-15), financiado por la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia.

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at indicating how Margaret Cavendish's stylistic exploration answer to the particularities of her concept of nature, i.e. the thesis that nature is live, infinite, changing and heterogeneous matter. I will first show the way in which the author is present in her writings, as she writes from a first person perspective about her own experience and from who she is. I will briefly summarise her biography and the context in which she practiced philosophy. Given that her stylistic choices are quite numerous, I will only present a few of her stylistic particularities. Secondly, I will develop the general outline of her concept of nature, as opposed to the one proposed by the mechanistic theories of her time. I will make it clear that said concept is adequately expressed in the stylistic diversity to which Cavendish turns in her investigations.

Keywords:
Vitalism; mechanistic philosophy; modern philosophy; writing

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