Feminism and History of Philosophy [Paperback]

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.

Introduction,Genevieve Lloyd
I. Reading Texts
1. Le Doeuff and History of Philosophy,Genevieve Lloyd
II. Re-reading Ancient Philosophers: Ideals of Reason
2. Socrates and his Twins (The Socrates(es) of Plato's 'Symposium'),Sarah Kofman
3. Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's 'Symposium': Diotima's Speech,Luce Irigaray
4. Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal,Marcia L. Homiak
5. Therapeutic Arguments and the Structures of Desire,Martha Nussbaum
III. Re-reading Seventeenth-Century Philosophers: Minds, Bodies, and Passions
6. The Passions and Philosophy,Susan James
7. Selections from 'The Flight to Objectivity',Susan Bordo
8. Princess Elisabeth and Descartes: The Union of Soul and Body and the Practice of Philosophy,Lisa Shapiro
9. Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous Love and the Hilarity of True Love,Am?lie Oskenberg Rorty
IV. Re-reading Eighteenth-Century Philosophers: Reason, Emotion, and Ethics
10. Hume, the Woman's Moral Theorist,Annette Baier
11. Agency, Attachment, and Difference,Barbara Herman
V Re-reading Nineteenth-Century Philosophers: Resentment, Irony, and the Sublime
12. On Hegel, Women, and Irony,Seyla Benhabib
13. 'We are not Sublime', Love and Sacrifice, Abraham and Ourselves,Sylvia Agacinski
14. 'Is it not remarkable that Nietzsche . . . should have hated Rousseau?' Woman, Femininil£-