Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an active part of a time of radical transformations in the field of ideas. From her controversies with contemporaries such as Edmund Burke to her passionate defense of the rights of men and women, a cornerstone of her legacy, the English thinker synthesizes like few figures the spirit of her time and the echoes of her in posterity. This volume covers and analyzes Wollstonecraft's life and intellectual career and explains why, when referring to her, Virginia Woolf said that "when we read her letters, listen to her arguments and consider her experiments, we recognize her immortality: she is alive and active, we hear her voice and note her influence even today."