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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... consciousness has made us sharply aware that this bodily realm is not unmarked in Western culture but gendered , that is , has been associated with and / or socially occupied by women . So , Gaukroger argues , for contemporary feminists ...
... consciousness has made us sharply aware that this bodily realm is not unmarked in Western culture but gendered , that is , has been associated with and / or socially occupied by women . So , Gaukroger argues , for contemporary feminists ...
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... consciousness— the Meditations are all these ; at the same time , they lay a new foundation for philosophical certainty , objectivity , and mastery . Descartes , like many other philosophers , was a much more complicated thinker than is ...
... consciousness— the Meditations are all these ; at the same time , they lay a new foundation for philosophical certainty , objectivity , and mastery . Descartes , like many other philosophers , was a much more complicated thinker than is ...
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... conscious ego ( the " I " ) , is continu- ally haunted by the unknowable " otherness " of unconscious thought , which ( as she puts it ) " whispered to Descartes even though he only wanted to listen to reason . " Paliyenko ingeniously ...
... conscious ego ( the " I " ) , is continu- ally haunted by the unknowable " otherness " of unconscious thought , which ( as she puts it ) " whispered to Descartes even though he only wanted to listen to reason . " Paliyenko ingeniously ...
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... consciousness or categories to enable either Descartes or Elizabeth to appreciate the philosophical ( and political ) ... conscious politics to " bias " that is inaccurate with regard to the leanings of most philosophical ideals . Some ...
... consciousness or categories to enable either Descartes or Elizabeth to appreciate the philosophical ( and political ) ... conscious politics to " bias " that is inaccurate with regard to the leanings of most philosophical ideals . Some ...
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... conscious of themselves as having disciplinary idiosyncrasies or em- bodying paradigms or assumptions peculiar to themselves . Within many quarters of philosophy , it was considered ( and still is , by some ) to be the highest sport to ...
... conscious of themselves as having disciplinary idiosyncrasies or em- bodying paradigms or assumptions peculiar to themselves . Within many quarters of philosophy , it was considered ( and still is , by some ) to be the highest sport to ...
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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