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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... Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians , " Feminine Philosophy , " and Historical Exclusion 232 Eileen O'Neill Part Four : Cartesian Man ...
... Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians , " Feminine Philosophy , " and Historical Exclusion 232 Eileen O'Neill Part Four : Cartesian Man ...
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... questions of philosophy . The student is to assume that she or he is about to explore the timeless wisdom of the greatest minds of Western philosophy . No one calls attention to the fact that the philosophers are all men . Though women ...
... questions of philosophy . The student is to assume that she or he is about to explore the timeless wisdom of the greatest minds of Western philosophy . No one calls attention to the fact that the philosophers are all men . Though women ...
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... question we must keep in front of us during this process of re - reading is whether a philosopher's socially inherited prejudices concerning woman's nature and role are independent of her or his larger philosophical frame- work . In ...
... question we must keep in front of us during this process of re - reading is whether a philosopher's socially inherited prejudices concerning woman's nature and role are independent of her or his larger philosophical frame- work . In ...
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... the Meditations ) , Descartes was devastated with grief . Francine , in the strange story in question , had been the model for a life - size , me- chanical doll that Descartes constructed , according to one version Introduction.
... the Meditations ) , Descartes was devastated with grief . Francine , in the strange story in question , had been the model for a life - size , me- chanical doll that Descartes constructed , according to one version Introduction.
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... questions concerning gender and Descartes specifi- cally , but also some more general questions — about Introduction 7.
... questions concerning gender and Descartes specifi- cally , but also some more general questions — about Introduction 7.
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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