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Informationen zum Autor Genevieve Lloyd is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy, University of New South Wales. She is the author of a number of books including The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy; Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature; and several books on Spinoza. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This edited collection of essays explores the ways in which we can interpret past philosophical texts from a feminist perspective. Drawn together within a chronological framework, pieces by leading feminist critics, such as Luce Irigaray and Martha Nussbaum, reveal the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers. 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 ...
