The man of reason : `male' and `female' in Western philosophy

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements = ⅶ
• Introduction = ⅷ
• 1 Reason, science and the domination of matter = 1
• Introduction = 1
• Femininity and Greek theories of knowledge = 2
• Francis Bacon : knowledge as the subjugation of Nature = 10
• 2 The divided soul : manliness and effeminacy = 19
• Introduction : Plato on Reason = 19
• Philo : 'manly Reason' and the 'entanglements' of sense = 22
• Augustine : spiritual equality and natural subordination = 28
• Aquinas : 'the principle of the human race' and his 'helpmate' = 33
• 3. Reason as attainment = 38
• Introduction = 38
• Descarles's method = 39
• Hume on Reason and the passions = 50
• 4 Reason and progress = 57
• Introduction = 57
• Rousseau : the lost youth of the world = 58
• Kant : from immaturity to enlighterment = 64
• Hegel : Reason as the unfolding of Nature = 70
• 5 The public and the private = 74
• Introduction : complementary consciousnesses = 74
• Hegel : the feminine nether world = 80
• 6 The struggle for trascenderce = 86
• Introduction = 86
• Hegel : self­consciousness as achievement = 88
• Sartre and de Beauvoir : women and transcendence = 93
• De Beauvoir on woman as other = 96
• 7 Concluding remarks = 103
• Notes = 111
• Bibliographical essay = 123
• Index = 135