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1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. Acknowledgements
6. Author Biography
7. List of Illustrations
8. 1. Introducing the Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood
9. 2. The Law of Imperfect Antithesis
10. 3. Pleasure and Pain
11. 4. Self and Unself
12. 5. Relation and Isolation
13. 6. Free Will and Determinism
14. 7. The Natural and the Supernatural
15. 8. Wedgwood and Hegel
16. 9. The Law of Recoil and the Ages of Woman
17. 10. Science and Faith
18. 11. Romans and Christians
19. 12. Ancients and Moderns
20. 13. The Emergence and Structure of The Moral Ideal
21. 14. New Attributions to Wedgwood
22. Online Appendix
23. Bibliography
24. Index
25. About the Team
26. This book need not end here…
27. You may also be interested in:
28. Back cover

Headings Outline

• THE PHILOSOPHY OF JULIA WEDGWOOD
• The Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood
  • Imperfect Antithesis
    • Alison Stone
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Author Biography
• List of Illustrations
  • All illustrations were created by the author (2026).
  • Figures
  • Tables
• 1. Introducing the Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood
  • 1.1 What This Book Is About
  • 1.2 Wedgwood and Victorian Print Culture
  • 1.3 Some of Wedgwood’s Influences and Interlocutors
  • 1.4 Scope and Structure of This Book
• 2. The Law of Imperfect Antithesis
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Imperfect Antithesis: Statements and Applications
  • 2.3 Three Influences: Aristotle, Darwin, Hegel
    • 2.4 Gratitude
  • 2.5 Apologies
  • 2.6 Remembering and Forgetting
  • 2.7 Real Antithesis
  • 2.8 Wedgwood and Deconstruction
  • 2.9 Litotes
  • 2.10 Conclusion
• 3. Pleasure and Pain
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Actual Pain, Ideal Aspiration
  • 3.3 The Painful Sensation of Having a Body
  • 3.4 Avoiding the Fallacy of Perfect Antithesis
  • 3.5 Self-Sacrifice and Pain
  • 3.6 Glimpses into the Meaning of Pain
  • 3.7 Animals in Pain
  • 3.8 Conclusion
• 4. Self and Unself
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Trouble with Altruism
  • 4.3 Imperfect Antithesis of Selfishness and Unselfishness
  • 4.4 Unselfishness as a Historical Ideal
  • 4.5 Unself and Insanity
  • 4.6 Dilemmas of Self-Sacrifice
  • 4.7 The Gender Angle
  • 4.8 Conclusion
• 5. Relation and Isolation
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Hume to Mill
  • 5.3 The Critique of Utilitarianism
  • 5.4 Sketch of a Relational Ethics
  • 5.5 We Can’t Go Back to Athens
  • 5.6 The Role of Imperfect Antithesis
• 6. Free Will and Determinism
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Wedgwood’s Early Kantian Gesture
  • 6.3 Wedgwood’s Dialogue on Free Will
  • 6.4 Imperfect Antithesis of Free Will and Determinism
  • 6.5 Locating and Assessing Wedgwood’s Views
  • 6.6 Free Will in Plato and Aristotle
  • 6.7 Free Will, Nature, and Spirit
  • 6.8 A Concluding Problem
• 7. The Natural and the Supernatural
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Wedgwood on Freedom and Nature
  • 7.3 Ethics and the Supernatural
  • 7.4 Force and the Supernatural Element in Nature
  • 7.5 Nature Points to Spirit, Spirit Overreaches Nature
  • 7.6 Conclusion: Self-Sacrifice, the Supernatural, and the Trouble with Experience
• 8. Wedgwood and Hegel
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Wedgwood on Hegel Revisited
  • 8.3 Imperfect Antithesis Isn’t a System
  • 8.4 Wedgwood against Hegel
• 9. The Law of Recoil and the Ages of Woman
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The Law of Recoil
  • 9.3 Wedgwood’s Feminism
  • 9.4 Woman: Ideal and Reality
  • 9.5 Moral Life Before Man
  • 9.6 Evaluating Wedgwood on Matriarchy
  • 9.7 Conclusion
• 10. Science and Faith
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Wedgwood’s Fears about Naturalism
  • 10.3 Hope and Punishment, Life and Death
  • 10.4 Belief and Doubt, Knowledge and Denial
  • 10.5 Naturalistic Flattening
  • 10.6 Concluding Problems: Phenomenology versus History
• 11. Romans and Christians
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 The First Opponent of Christianity
  • 11.3 Virgil Between Two Worlds
  • 11.4 Liberation Christianity
  • 11.5 How Phenomenology and History Combine through Imperfect Antithesis
• 12. Ancients and Moderns
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Shame and Dignity
  • 12.3 Slavery, Purity, and Humanity
  • 12.4 Aeschylus and Shakespeare
  • 12.5 Not Quite at the Antipodes
  • 12.6 Implications for the Modern World
• 13. The Emergence and Structure of The Moral Ideal
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 ‘The Moral Ideal’ and its Ambiguities
  • 13.3 Historical Recoil and Hegelian Parallels in The Moral Ideal
  • 13.4 Progressive History
  • 13.5 The Female Future
  • 13.6 Wedgwood: Concluding Evaluation
• 14. New Attributions to Wedgwood
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Archival Evidence
  • 14.3 ‘J. W.’
  • 14.4 Textual Analysis
  • 14.5 Digital Searching and Concordance
  • 14.6 Evidence from Digital Stylometry
  • 14.7 Linguistic Top Tens
  • 14.8 Final List of New Attributions
  • 14.9 Grounds for Further Attributions
    • ‘Utilitarianism’ (1864)
    • ‘Büchner’s “Matter and Force”’ (1864)
    • ‘The Development of Christianity’ (1873)
    • ‘Hume and the Positive Philosophy’ (1874) and ‘Hume and the Utilitarian Ethics’ (1874)
    • ‘“The Unseen Universe”’ (1875)
    • ‘Lord Amberley’s “Analysis of Religious Belief”’, Two Parts (1876)
    • ‘What is Christianity?’ (1876)
    • ‘The Negative Stage in the Life of Thought’ (1878)
    • ‘A German Hypatia’ (1878)
    • ‘Character and Position’ (1878)
    • ‘La Rochefoucauld’ (1879)
    • ‘Friends Old and New’ (1879)
    • ‘Justice’ (1879)
    • ‘“Grievances of Women”’ (1880)
    • ‘Political Characteristics of Woman’ (1880)
    • ‘Selfishness’ (1882)
    • ‘Dislike’ (1883)
    • ‘Gratitude’ (1883)
    • ‘Christianity and Politics’ (1884)
    • ‘Democracy and Truth’ (1885)
    • ‘Party Spirit’ (1885)
    • ‘Men and Women’ (1886)
    • ‘Obedience’ (1886)
    • ‘Experiment’ (1887)
    • ‘The Decay of Reticence’ (1888)
    • ‘Evolution and Politics’ (1889)
    • ‘“Le Disciple”’ (1890)
    • ‘Old and Young’ (1890)
    • Confirmation from Stylometry
• Online Appendix
  • Available online at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0543#resources
• Bibliography
  • I. Writings by Julia Wedgwood
  • (ordered chronologically within sub-categories)
    • Books
    • Articles
    • Regular Fiction Reviews
    • Longer Letters to the Press
    • Correspondence
  • II. Texts Used in Corpus Stylometry
  • III. Other Literature
• Index
• About the Team
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