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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2019

Cartesianism and Feminism

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Cartesianism constitutes a particular and crucial moment in the history of the relations between the aims of philosophy and feminist claims. This is explained by theoretical reasons (the new Cartesian science posits a human being that is fundamentally non-sexual and ungendered) and by practical reasons (the importance of the philosophical vocations for women and the feminist vocations for men that Cartesianism has permitted). Recent readings of Descartes (which see him either as a misogynist or as a philogynist) show that the theoretical connections between Cartesianism and feminism are strong: Cartesianism powerfully questions the relation of women to philosophy, both as subjects and as philosophical objects.
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hal-02007569 , version 1 (05-02-2019)

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Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin. Cartesianism and Feminism. Nadler, Steven, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford University Press, pp.565-579, 2019, 9780198796909. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.35⟩. ⟨hal-02007569⟩
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