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TY - JOUR
T1 - Martineau, Cobbe, and Teleological Progressivism
AU - Stone, Alison
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal for the History of Philosophy on 4 Dec 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09608788.2020.1851650
PY - 2021/11/30
Y1 - 2021/11/30
N2 - In this paper, I reconstruct the views on historical progress of two nineteenth-century English-speaking philosophical women, Harriet Martineau (1802–76) and Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904). Martineau and Cobbe put forward theories of progress which I classify as versions of teleological progressivism. Their theories are bound up with their accounts of different world civilizations and religions, and their advancement towards either Christianity, for Cobbe, or through and beyond Christianity towards secularization, for Martineau. After explaining the overall nature of teleological progressivism in the Victorian era and locating Cobbe and Martineau within this intellectual context (Section 1), I turn to the details of Martineau’s version of teleological progressivism (Section 2), then Cobbe’s initial version (Section 3) followed by her second, revised version (Section 4). I then draw out some conclusions about the shared structure of Martineau’s and Cobbe’s forms of teleological progressivism and its complicated connections with Eurocentrism and colonialism (Section 5).
AB - In this paper, I reconstruct the views on historical progress of two nineteenth-century English-speaking philosophical women, Harriet Martineau (1802–76) and Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904). Martineau and Cobbe put forward theories of progress which I classify as versions of teleological progressivism. Their theories are bound up with their accounts of different world civilizations and religions, and their advancement towards either Christianity, for Cobbe, or through and beyond Christianity towards secularization, for Martineau. After explaining the overall nature of teleological progressivism in the Victorian era and locating Cobbe and Martineau within this intellectual context (Section 1), I turn to the details of Martineau’s version of teleological progressivism (Section 2), then Cobbe’s initial version (Section 3) followed by her second, revised version (Section 4). I then draw out some conclusions about the shared structure of Martineau’s and Cobbe’s forms of teleological progressivism and its complicated connections with Eurocentrism and colonialism (Section 5).
KW - Francis Power Cobbe
KW - Harriet Martineau
KW - Progress
KW - History
KW - Imperialism
U2 - 10.1080/09608788.2020.1851650
DO - 10.1080/09608788.2020.1851650
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 1099
EP - 1123
JO - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
JF - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
SN - 0960-8788
IS - 6
ER -