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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... nature of woman . Sometimes the philosopher speaks directly about woman , delineating her proper role , her abilities and inabilities , her desires . Other times the message is indirect - a passing remark hint- ing at women's ...
... nature of woman . Sometimes the philosopher speaks directly about woman , delineating her proper role , her abilities and inabilities , her desires . Other times the message is indirect - a passing remark hint- ing at women's ...
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... nature of woman . ” His sci- ence and metaphysics is unmarked by the sorts of sexual associations ( e.g. , between a ... natural philosophers ” centered on Cartesian mechanism , an aspect of Cartesianism that has become prominent again ...
... nature of woman . ” His sci- ence and metaphysics is unmarked by the sorts of sexual associations ( e.g. , between a ... natural philosophers ” centered on Cartesian mechanism , an aspect of Cartesianism that has become prominent again ...
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... natural light " of Reason to be equally present in all people , awaiting only the correct method for it to be liber ... nature ) and linked with " practi- cal , " manual activity ( a continual subtheme , as Dewey has pointed out , in ...
... natural light " of Reason to be equally present in all people , awaiting only the correct method for it to be liber ... nature ) and linked with " practi- cal , " manual activity ( a continual subtheme , as Dewey has pointed out , in ...
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... - cauldian perspectives on Descartes , perspectives that are sensitive to the " troubled " nature of texts but clueless with regard to gender . Adrianna Paliyenko's " Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Sub- ject Introduction 13.
... - cauldian perspectives on Descartes , perspectives that are sensitive to the " troubled " nature of texts but clueless with regard to gender . Adrianna Paliyenko's " Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Sub- ject Introduction 13.
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... nature of Africans , as noted earlier . Severing oneself ( or one's group ) from such associations has sometimes seemed best served by insisting on the freedom of the intellect to transcend the body . But , then , these strategies that ...
... nature of Africans , as noted earlier . Severing oneself ( or one's group ) from such associations has sometimes seemed best served by insisting on the freedom of the intellect to transcend the body . But , then , these strategies that ...
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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