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Is Philosophy Androcentric?

  • ISBN-13: 9780271029078
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Iddo Landau
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  • Local release date: 01/09/2006
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]
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In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed. “Philosophy emerges, in almost all of its parts,” he concludes, “as human rather than male, and most parts and aspects of it need not be rejected or rewritten."


Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Explicit Androcentric Statements

3. Associations, Stereotypes, and Social Practices

4. Harmful Philosophical Notions

5. Metaphors

6. Values, Interests, and Domination

7. Philosophies and Mentalities

8. Androcentric Omissions

9. A Feminist Alternative?

10. Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Index



“Iddo Landau has written a focused and clearly organized book in which he investigates the extent to which Western philosophy is androcentric.”

—Sharon Crasnow, Philosophy Reviews

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