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Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Häftad, 2003
641 kr
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Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays included in this volume show that it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences about women and other …
Feminist Interpretations of Plato
Av Nancy Tuana
Häftad, 1994
471 kr
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The essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosophy and are representative of the variety of perspectives within feminist criticism. The essays in the first section focus primarily on Plato's social and political theory, and in particular the place of women within the …
Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir
Häftad, 1995
542 kr
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For almost twenty years, feminist readings of Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist classic The Second Sex have been dominated by dismissive interpretation of Beauvoir’s philosophy as Sartrean and phallocentric. Beauvoir’s angry refusal to acknowledge either her philosophical originality or her lesbian …
Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt
Av Bonnie Honig
Häftad, 1995
516 kr
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Consisting almost entirely of new essays specially prepared for this volume, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt illuminates the diversity of contemporary feminisms while also generating new and suggestive readings of Hannah Arendt's political thought. The contributing authors' shared …
Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel
Häftad, 1996
471 kr
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A pivotal figure in critical theory and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the subject of differing feminist critiques. Going beyond and behind Simone de Beauvoir's creative appropriation of Hegel in The Second Sex, the essays gathered together here think both with and against the …
Feminist Interpretations of Derrida
Häftad, 1997
398 kr
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Much contemporary feminist theory continues to see itself as freeing women from patriarchal oppression so that they may realize their own inner truth. To be told by postmodern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida that the very possibility of such a truth must be submitted to the process of …
Feminist Interpretations of Søren Kierkegaard
Häftad, 1997
448 kr
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Unlike many of the major figures in Western philosophy, Kierkegaard explores many issues of interest to feminist theorists today. Moreover, he does so in a style—labyrinthine, many-voiced, multilayered, adverse to authority—that adumbrates écriture féminine.A major question probed in the volume is …
Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Häftad, 1998
550 kr
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In contrast to many previous feminist interpretations of Aristotle, which found much to disparage and little to salvage in his philosophy, the contributors to this volume enter into new, creative, and subtle dimensions of inquiry about Aristotle. They look more deeply into his influence and …
Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche
Av Kelly Oliver, Marilyn Pearsall
Inbunden, 1998
1247 kr
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Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.The organization of the volume into two sets of essays, "Nietzsche's Use of Woman" and …
Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche
Av Kelly Oliver, Marilyn Pearsall
Häftad, 1998
711 kr
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Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.The organization of the volume into two sets of essays, "Nietzsche's Use of Woman" and …
Feminist Interpretations of David Hume
Inbunden, 2000
1062 kr
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This book is the first collection of feminist essays on one of the central figures in the history of English-speaking philosophy. Besides providing a rich variety of feminist viewpoints on a wide range of Hume’s writings, the contributors introduce new themes into the scholarship on Hume, including …
Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly
Av Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Marilyn Frye
Inbunden, 2000
1532 kr
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This open-ended anthology is a journey into the very canon that Mary Daly has argued to be patriarchal and demeaning to women. This volume deauthorizes the official canon of Western philosophy and disrupts a related story told by some feminists who claim that Daly’s work is unworthy of re-reading …
Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly
Av Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Marilyn Frye
Häftad, 2000
594 kr
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This open-ended anthology is a journey into the very canon that Mary Daly has argued to be patriarchal and demeaning to women. This volume deauthorizes the official canon of Western philosophy and disrupts a related story told by some feminists who claim that Daly’s work is unworthy of re-reading …
Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas
Av Tina Chanter
Häftad, 2001
711 kr
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This volume of essays, all but one previously unpublished, investigates the question of Levinas’s relationship to feminist thought. Levinas, known as the philosopher of the Other, was famously portrayed by Simone de Beauvoir as a patriarchal thinker who denigrated women by viewing them as the …
Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger
Av Nancy Holland, Patricia Huntington
Häftad, 2001
618 kr
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Martin Heidegger's commitment to the idea that Dasein (human existence) is ultimately gender neutral, as well as several other major aspects of his thought, raises significant questions for feminist philosophers. The fourteen essays included in this volume clearly illustrate the ways in which …
Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Av Lynda Lange
Inbunden, 2002
1649 kr
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A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also …
Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Av Lynda Lange
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also …
Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Inbunden, 2002
1649 kr
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Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays included in this volume show that it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences about women and other …
Feminist Interpretations of W. V. Quine
Av Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Jack Nelson
Häftad, 2003
641 kr
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As one of the preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century, W. V. Quine (1908–2000) made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of language. This collection of essays examines Quine's views, particularly his holism and naturalism, for …
Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli
Häftad, 2004
857 kr
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Diplomat, bureaucrat, and practical politician, Niccolò Machiavelli served as Second Secretary to the Republic of Florence in the early sixteenth century and became the first major political thinker in the western tradition to make a complete break with the Aristotelian model of politics as a …
Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Häftad, 1999
471 kr
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While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's …
Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Av Dorothea Olkowski, Gail Weiss
Inbunden, 2006
1332 kr
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More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how …
Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Av Dorothea Olkowski, Gail Weiss
Häftad, 2007
675 kr
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More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how …
Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
Av Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure
Inbunden, 2007
1190 kr
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This collection considers one of the most important figures of the modern canon of political philosophy, John Locke. A physician by training and profession, Locke not only wrote one of the most important and well-known treatises of the modern canon, but also made important contributions in the …
Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
Av Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure
Häftad, 2007
550 kr
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This collection considers one of the most important figures of the modern canon of political philosophy, John Locke. A physician by training and profession, Locke not only wrote one of the most important and well-known treatises of the modern canon, but also made important contributions in the …
Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman
Av Penny A. Weiss, Loretta Kensinger
Häftad, 2007
550 kr
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Within the popular consciousness, Emma Goldman has become something of an icon, a symbol for rebellion and women’s rights. But there has been surprisingly little substantive analysis of her influence on social, political, and feminist theory. In Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Weiss and …
Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant
Av Robin Schott
Häftad, 1997
550 kr
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Because of his misogyny and disdain for the body, Kant has been a target of much feminist criticism. Moreover, as the epitome of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy, his thought has been a focal point for feminist debate over the Enlightenment legacy—whether its conceptions of reason and …
Feminist Interpretations of Saint Augustine
Häftad, 2007
711 kr
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Since the establishment of Christianity in the West as a major religious tradition, Augustine (354–430 CE) has been considered a principal architect of the ways philosophy can be used for reasoning about faith. In particular, Augustine effected the joining of Platonism with Christian belief for the …
Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault
Av Susan Hekman
Häftad, 1996
527 kr
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This volume presents an exploration of the intersection between the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory, focusing on Foucault's theories of sex/body, identity/subject, and power/politics.Like the other books in this series, this volume seeks to bring a feminist perspective to bear on the …
Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville
Av Jill Locke, Eileen Hunt Botting
Häftad, 2009
444 kr
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This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) and his relevance to contemporary democracy by emphasizing the relationship of his life and work to modern feminist thought. Within the resurgence of political interest in Tocqueville during the past two decades, …
