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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... Doubt and the Liberation of Women 169 Ruth Perry 9 Descartes's Mood : The Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians , " Feminine Philosophy ...
... Doubt and the Liberation of Women 169 Ruth Perry 9 Descartes's Mood : The Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians , " Feminine Philosophy ...
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... Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " is re- printed with permission of the publisher from Eighteenth - Century Studies 18 , no . 4 ( Summer 1985 ) : 472-93 . Copyright © 1985 The Johns Hopkins University Press . Karl Stern ...
... Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " is re- printed with permission of the publisher from Eighteenth - Century Studies 18 , no . 4 ( Summer 1985 ) : 472-93 . Copyright © 1985 The Johns Hopkins University Press . Karl Stern ...
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... doubt undertaken in the Meditations real or merely " methodical " ? As a model for modern philosophizing , the Meditations has been the primogenitor of wildly varying projects and temperaments , from the introspective turns of ...
... doubt undertaken in the Meditations real or merely " methodical " ? As a model for modern philosophizing , the Meditations has been the primogenitor of wildly varying projects and temperaments , from the introspective turns of ...
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... Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " which examines the liberatory impact of Cartesian thought and the " new philosophy " on intellectual opportunities for the women of Descartes's own time . At the heart of Cartesian rationalism is ...
... Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " which examines the liberatory impact of Cartesian thought and the " new philosophy " on intellectual opportunities for the women of Descartes's own time . At the heart of Cartesian rationalism is ...
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... doubt " has given way to a version of Descartes's " hyperbolic doubt " -- the creation of a world in which nothing can be trusted because " everything is possible . " And on television talk shows , " emotional logic " doesn't merely ...
... doubt " has given way to a version of Descartes's " hyperbolic doubt " -- the creation of a world in which nothing can be trusted because " everything is possible . " And on television talk shows , " emotional logic " doesn't merely ...
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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