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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... tradition . Devoted to the work of a single philosopher , each volume contains essays covering the full range of the philosopher's thought and representing the di- versity of approaches now being used by feminist critics . Already ...
... tradition . Devoted to the work of a single philosopher , each volume contains essays covering the full range of the philosopher's thought and representing the di- versity of approaches now being used by feminist critics . Already ...
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... traditions of philosophy . Given the history of canon formation in Western philosophy , the perspective most likely to ... tradition . I share the view of Michael Bérubé that “ canons are at once the location , the index , and the record ...
... traditions of philosophy . Given the history of canon formation in Western philosophy , the perspective most likely to ... tradition . I share the view of Michael Bérubé that “ canons are at once the location , the index , and the record ...
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... tradition of excellence embodied in a canon of authorized texts ? Or , rather than abandon the whole idea of a canon , do we instead encourage a reconstruction of a canon of those texts that inform a common culture ? This series is ...
... tradition of excellence embodied in a canon of authorized texts ? Or , rather than abandon the whole idea of a canon , do we instead encourage a reconstruction of a canon of those texts that inform a common culture ? This series is ...
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... traditional interpretations , and that demonstrate just how ruthlessly the complexity of authors has been sub- merged by philosophical and religious movements and " schools . " But his- tory is always selective , and so is ...
... traditional interpretations , and that demonstrate just how ruthlessly the complexity of authors has been sub- merged by philosophical and religious movements and " schools . " But his- tory is always selective , and so is ...
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... tradition . Controversies among “ natural philosophers ” centered on Cartesian mechanism , an aspect of Cartesianism that has become prominent again in the second half of the twentieth century with philosophy of science's increasing ...
... tradition . Controversies among “ natural philosophers ” centered on Cartesian mechanism , an aspect of Cartesianism that has become prominent again in the second half of the twentieth century with philosophy of science's increasing ...
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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