Feminist Interpretations of RenŽ DescartesSusan Bordo Contributors are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario Moussa, Eileen O'Neill, Adrianna Paliyenko, Ruth Perry, Mario S&áenz, Karl Stern, Thomas Wartenberg, and James Winders. |
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... Descartes's covert commitment to the Godless doctrine and providing cautionary lessons about the excesses of a mechanist view of life . One of these is a bizarre story about Descartes and a mechanical doll . Descartes had an ...
... Descartes's covert commitment to the Godless doctrine and providing cautionary lessons about the excesses of a mechanist view of life . One of these is a bizarre story about Descartes and a mechanical doll . Descartes had an ...
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... Descartes , suggests a modern - day analogue to such eighteenth - century harangues in contem- porary feminist critiques of Cartesian dualism . These critiques , he notes , add a new layer of symbolic gender meaning to the story of ...
... Descartes , suggests a modern - day analogue to such eighteenth - century harangues in contem- porary feminist critiques of Cartesian dualism . These critiques , he notes , add a new layer of symbolic gender meaning to the story of ...
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... Descartes's mechanical daughter does titillate a feminist imagination , but in more complex ways than Gaukroger assumes . The legend focuses on the philosopher's relation with a lifeless doll , presented as symbolic of the barrenness of ...
... Descartes's mechanical daughter does titillate a feminist imagination , but in more complex ways than Gaukroger assumes . The legend focuses on the philosopher's relation with a lifeless doll , presented as symbolic of the barrenness of ...
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... Descartes . The intellectual relationship between Descartes and feminism , like this story of Descartes and his " two " daughters , is both fascinating and contradictory . On the face of it , there is a kind of gender void in Des ...
... Descartes . The intellectual relationship between Descartes and feminism , like this story of Descartes and his " two " daughters , is both fascinating and contradictory . On the face of it , there is a kind of gender void in Des ...
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... Descartes and Carte- sianism into conversation with a range of styles , theories , and intellectual interests . This goal has meant , however , that clarity and comprehensibil- ity are especially important , and I have chosen essays ...
... Descartes and Carte- sianism into conversation with a range of styles , theories , and intellectual interests . This goal has meant , however , that clarity and comprehensibil- ity are especially important , and I have chosen essays ...
Contents
Descartes Karl Stern | 29 |
Selections from The Flight to Objectivity Susan Bordo | 48 |
Reason as Attainment Genevieve Lloyd | 70 |
Descartess Gender Stanley Clarke | 82 |
Gender and Other Trouble in the Meditations | 103 |
Wonder A Reading of Descartes The Passions of the Soul Luce Irigaray | 105 |
Writing Like a Man? Descartes Science and Madness James A Winders | 114 |
Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Subject Descartess I Lacans Other Adrianna M Paliyenko | 141 |
Cartesian Women Erica Harth | 213 |
Women Cartesians Feminine Philosophy and Historical Exclusion Eileen ONeill | 232 |
Cartesian Man | 259 |
When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe Academic Cartesianism and the Late TwentiethCentury Cult of the Body Leslie Heyivood | 261 |
Rehabilitating the I Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa | 280 |
Cartesian AutobiographyPostCartesian Testimonials Mario Saenz | 305 |
Select Bibliography on Descartes Cartesianism and Gender | 328 |
Contributors | 332 |
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