This new collection of essays by leading feminist critics highlights the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers. Rather than defining itself through opposition to a "male" philosophical tradition, feminist philosophy emerges not only as an exciting new contribution to the history of philosophy, but also as a source of cultural self-understanding in the present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- I. Reading Texts
- 1: Genevieve Lloyd: Le Doeuff and History of Philosophy
- II. Re-reading Ancient Philosophers: Ideals of Reason
- 2: Sarah Kofman: Socrates and his Twins (The Socrates(es) of Plato's 'Symposium')
- 3: Luce Irigaray: Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's 'Symposium': Diotima's Speech
- 4: Marcia L. Homiak: Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal
- 5: Martha Nussbaum: Therapeutic Arguments and the Structures of Desire
- III. Re-reading Seventeenth-Century Philosophers: Minds, Bodies, and Passions
- 6: Susan James: The Passions and Philosophy
- 7: Susan Bordo: Selections from 'The Flight to Objectivity'
- 8: Lisa Shapiro: Princess Elisabeth and Descartes: The Union of Soul and Body and the Practice of Philosophy
- 9: Amélie Oskenberg Rorty: Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous Love and the Hilarity of True Love
- IV. Re-reading Eighteenth-Century Philosophers: Reason, Emotion, and Ethics
- 10: Annette Baier: Hume, the Woman's Moral Theorist
- 11: Barbara Herman: Agency, Attachment, and Difference
- V Re-reading Nineteenth-Century Philosophers: Resentment, Irony, and the Sublime
- 12: Seyla Benhabib: On Hegel, Women, and Irony
- 13: Sylvia Agacinski: 'We are not Sublime', Love and Sacrifice, Abraham and Ourselves
- 14: Penelope Deutscher: 'Is it not remarkable that Nietzsche . . . should have hated Rousseau?' Woman, Femininity: Distancing Nietzsche from Rousseau
- Further Reading
- Index
