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Philosophy without Women

The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought

by Vigdis Songe-Moller

  • Paperback
  • 198 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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For readers interested in feminist philosophy and history

Addresses the sexism embedded in Western philosophical thought

You will gain a new perspective on gender in philosophy

This book challenges traditional views on women in Western philosophy.

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For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of European culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Vigdis Songe-Muller examines the differences between Presocratic monists like Parmenides, and implicit pluralists such as Anaximander, and shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind. The text re-evaluates Greek mythology, throws a harsh new light on the invention of democracy, and exposes Platonic harmony to be an ideal driven by a peculiarly masculine fear of death. It was a fear that could only be overcome by denying the significance of difference, and at times even the rightful existence of that which embodied difference. For the Greek man, the difference that mattered was nowhere more frighteningly apparent than in woman.
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  • Author

    Vigdis Songe-Moller

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    February 2003

  • Weight

    287g

  • Page Count

    198

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826458490

  • ISBN-10

    0826458491

  • Eden Code

    3951104

This book challenges traditional views on women in Western philosophy.

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