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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... value in the process of under- standing . Rather , our culture needs to reconceive the status of what Des- cartes assigned to the shadows ” ( 116 ) . My perspective here is not unique , but shared by many feminist critics of the ...
... value in the process of under- standing . Rather , our culture needs to reconceive the status of what Des- cartes assigned to the shadows ” ( 116 ) . My perspective here is not unique , but shared by many feminist critics of the ...
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... values that the traditional histories portray as winning solid , seamless triumphs— such as " the rise of modern science , " " the age of Reason , " " objectivity , " and so on — are in fact in continual struggle with that which they ...
... values that the traditional histories portray as winning solid , seamless triumphs— such as " the rise of modern science , " " the age of Reason , " " objectivity , " and so on — are in fact in continual struggle with that which they ...
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... values that look down on bodily activity ( or more precisely the activity they construe as bodily ) and through which a whole range of cultural contributions are kept in a special pre- serve : the “ primitive " art and religion of ...
... values that look down on bodily activity ( or more precisely the activity they construe as bodily ) and through which a whole range of cultural contributions are kept in a special pre- serve : the “ primitive " art and religion of ...
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... values ? The answer , I believe , is complicated — and in progress . When I began college in the early 1960s , Cartesian Man reigned in academia . Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic ...
... values ? The answer , I believe , is complicated — and in progress . When I began college in the early 1960s , Cartesian Man reigned in academia . Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic ...
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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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