Words of Power - A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic

List of contents

Prologue. Introduction: Reading Logic Part 1: Classical Logic 1. The Desire of Logic: Parmenides’s Passion 2. Weaving the Seine of Logos: Plato and the Sophist 3. Aristotle’s Syllogisms 4. Logos Spermatikos: The Logic of Empire Part 2: Medieval Logic 5. An Arsenal of Reasons: Abelard’s Dialectic 6. The Antinomies of Power: Ockham’s Razor Part 3: Reading Frege 7. Breaking the Power of the Word 8. The Marriage of Mathematics and Language 9. Frege’s Thoughts 10. A Thought like a Hammer: The Logic of Totalitarianism. Conclusion: Words of Power and the Power of Words

About the author

Andrea Nye

Summary

Originally published in 1990. This confrontational, controversial book challenges the complaint that women are illogical. In a series of studies of historical figures Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Abelard, Ockham, and Frege the author traces the changing interrelationships between logical innovation and oppressive speech strategies.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Nye, Andrea (University of Wisconsinwhitewater Nye, Andrea (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Nye, Nye Andrea
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367426873
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42687-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Logic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Philosophy: logic, Indian record