Women in Philosophy, Sexism, Women's History - General & Miscellaneous, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology

Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition

Name: Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition
Author: Beverley Clack
ISBN: 9780415921824

by Beverley Clack

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Overview

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 philosophers can be separated from the misogyny, and whether feminists should seek an alternative to the Western philosophical canon.

This collection offers chronological evidence of how the great male thinkers debated the question of woman, provides and introduction of each thinker. The philosophers included are: Plato, Aristotle, Tertullian, Augustine, Aquinas, Kramer, Sprenger, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Weininger, Spengler and Lucas.