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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... Century Cult of the Body 261 Leslie Heywood 13 Rehabilitating the " I " 280 Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa 14 Cartesian Autobiography / Post - Cartesian Testimonials 305 Mario Sáenz Select Bibliography on Descartes , Cartesianism , and ...
... Century Cult of the Body 261 Leslie Heywood 13 Rehabilitating the " I " 280 Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa 14 Cartesian Autobiography / Post - Cartesian Testimonials 305 Mario Sáenz Select Bibliography on Descartes , Cartesianism , and ...
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... century . What ultimately settled the matter for me - besides Nancy's enthusiasm and encouragement - was the work of the contributors to this volume , work that has refreshed , challenged , and taught me so much about the com- plexity ...
... century . What ultimately settled the matter for me - besides Nancy's enthusiasm and encouragement - was the work of the contributors to this volume , work that has refreshed , challenged , and taught me so much about the com- plexity ...
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... Century Cult of the Body , " is a condensation of the introduction to Dedication to Hunger : The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture and is reprinted with permission of the pub- lisher , University of California Press . Copyright ...
... Century Cult of the Body , " is a condensation of the introduction to Dedication to Hunger : The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture and is reprinted with permission of the pub- lisher , University of California Press . Copyright ...
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... century , many saw him as the paterfamilias of the materialist doctrine of " man the machine . " One of the ideas for which Descartes is famous is the notion that animals are automata , soulless wind - up toys , programmed by God ; in ...
... century , many saw him as the paterfamilias of the materialist doctrine of " man the machine . " One of the ideas for which Descartes is famous is the notion that animals are automata , soulless wind - up toys , programmed by God ; in ...
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... 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 and his surrogate mechanical daughter . For eighteenth - century ...
... 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 and his surrogate mechanical daughter . For eighteenth - century ...
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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