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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... tion must occur in conjunction with careful attention to the concept of a canon of authorized texts . Are we to dispense with the notion of a tradition of excellence embodied in a canon of authorized texts ? Or , rather than abandon the ...
... tion must occur in conjunction with careful attention to the concept of a canon of authorized texts . Are we to dispense with the notion of a tradition of excellence embodied in a canon of authorized texts ? Or , rather than abandon the ...
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... tion , bringing order and manageability to the loose ends , last - minute glitches , and material disarray that anthologies always involve . Linda's intelligence , foresight , expertise , and care — and the pleasure of working together ...
... tion , bringing order and manageability to the loose ends , last - minute glitches , and material disarray that anthologies always involve . Linda's intelligence , foresight , expertise , and care — and the pleasure of working together ...
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... tion accordingly . In the first section , " Descartes and Gender , " the diffi- cult and often misconstrued issue of the " maleness " or " masculinism " of Descartes's thought is taken up . The second section , " Gender ( and Other ) ...
... tion accordingly . In the first section , " Descartes and Gender , " the diffi- cult and often misconstrued issue of the " maleness " or " masculinism " of Descartes's thought is taken up . The second section , " Gender ( and Other ) ...
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... tion ( or indeed any education at all ) , but could be undertaken whatever one's background or situation in life . One social consequence of such a view was the blossoming of philosophical correspondences between intel- lectual men and ...
... tion ( or indeed any education at all ) , but could be undertaken whatever one's background or situation in life . One social consequence of such a view was the blossoming of philosophical correspondences between intel- lectual men and ...
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... tion that are absent from Cartesian Man ( and central , as he argues , to the postcolonial literature of resistance — what he terms " post - Cartesian testimonials " ) emphasizes the Cartesian subject's disconnection from community ...
... tion that are absent from Cartesian Man ( and central , as he argues , to the postcolonial literature of resistance — what he terms " post - Cartesian testimonials " ) emphasizes the Cartesian subject's disconnection from community ...
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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