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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... believe that this canon represents only a selective history of the tradition . I share the view of Michael Bérubé that “ canons are at once the location , the index , and the record of the struggle for cultural representation ; like any ...
... believe that this canon represents only a selective history of the tradition . I share the view of Michael Bérubé that “ canons are at once the location , the index , and the record of the struggle for cultural representation ; like any ...
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... believe , is complicated — and in progress . When I began college in the early 1960s , Cartesian Man reigned in academia . Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic feminism did not exist ...
... believe , is complicated — and in progress . When I began college in the early 1960s , Cartesian Man reigned in academia . Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic feminism did not exist ...
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... believe , however , that any workable answer for our age will have to come to grips with developments that Descartes did not imagine , even in his most vivid dreams and hyperbolic hypotheses . Yet those dreams and hypothesis are also ...
... believe , however , that any workable answer for our age will have to come to grips with developments that Descartes did not imagine , even in his most vivid dreams and hyperbolic hypotheses . Yet those dreams and hypothesis are also ...
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... believe that Reason can relieve us of the concrete tasks that history puts before us . But like Descartes ( and paradoxically , against Silber , Cheney , Bennett , and other proponents of Tradition - as - Permanent - Truth ) , I cherish ...
... believe that Reason can relieve us of the concrete tasks that history puts before us . But like Descartes ( and paradoxically , against Silber , Cheney , Bennett , and other proponents of Tradition - as - Permanent - Truth ) , I cherish ...
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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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