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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... providing cautionary lessons about the excesses of a mechanist view of life . One of these is a bizarre story about Descartes and a mechanical doll . Descartes had an illegitimate daughter , Francine , to whom he was ap- parently deeply ...
... providing cautionary lessons about the excesses of a mechanist view of life . One of these is a bizarre story about Descartes and a mechanical doll . Descartes had an illegitimate daughter , Francine , to whom he was ap- parently deeply ...
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... provide counterpoints to each other will emerge clearly for the reader . I hope that this will enable teachers to use this book to pose and explore not only key questions concerning gender and Descartes specifi- cally , but also some ...
... provide counterpoints to each other will emerge clearly for the reader . I hope that this will enable teachers to use this book to pose and explore not only key questions concerning gender and Descartes specifi- cally , but also some ...
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... providing the inspiration for brilliant new visions of ethics and political theory , to being corralled to reinforce nineteenth - century notions of female virtue and male vice , to being condemned as racist , ethnocentric and ...
... providing the inspiration for brilliant new visions of ethics and political theory , to being corralled to reinforce nineteenth - century notions of female virtue and male vice , to being condemned as racist , ethnocentric and ...
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... provides a powerful " argument " for keeping women in their " material " place , excluded from those activities seen as requiring ratio- nality and objectivity . Instead , they are relegated to activities of which the man of reason ...
... provides a powerful " argument " for keeping women in their " material " place , excluded from those activities seen as requiring ratio- nality and objectivity . Instead , they are relegated to activities of which the man of reason ...
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... provides a wonderful introduction to and critique of Derridean and Fou- cauldian perspectives on Descartes , perspectives that are sensitive to the " troubled " nature of texts but clueless with regard to gender . Adrianna Paliyenko's ...
... provides a wonderful introduction to and critique of Derridean and Fou- cauldian perspectives on Descartes , perspectives that are sensitive to the " troubled " nature of texts but clueless with regard to gender . Adrianna Paliyenko's ...
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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