1st Edition
Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition A Reader
Edited By Beverley Clack
Copyright 1999
262 Pages
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Routledge
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320 Pages
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From some of the great philosophers of the Western tradition: The Devils gateway --Tertullian A misbegotten male --Aquinas Big children their whole life long --Schopenhauer The roots of philosophical misogyny in the writings of thinkers from the ancient Greeks through the modern age are exposed and explored in this collection. Beverley Clack questions whether the wisdom of these... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: A Fling with the Philosophers, PART I. THE GREEKS, 1. Plato, 2. Aristotle , PART II. THE CHURCH FATHERS, 3. Tertullian, 4. Augustine, 5. Thomas Aquinas, 6. Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, PART III. EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHERS, 7. René Descartes, 8. Thomas Hobbes, 9. John Locke, PART IV. THE ENLIGHTENMENT, 10. David Hume, 11. Immanuel Kant, 12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 13. G. W. F. Hegel, PART V. MISOGYNY IN THE MODERN AGE, 14. Arthur Schopenhauer, 15. Friedrich Nietzsche, 16. Sigmund Freud, 17. Otto Weininger, 18. Oswald Spengler, 19. J. R. Lucas, Notes, Index
Biography
Beverley Clack is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Stuides at Roehampton Institute, London
