Misogyny
in the Western Philosophical Tradition : A Reader by
Beverley Clack (Editor)
From some of the
great philosophers of the Western tradition:
"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, Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger, Rene
Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Oswald
Spengler and J. R. Lucas.
About
the Author
Beverley Clack is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious
Stuides at Roehampton Institute, London