Routledge Library Editions: Logic- Words of Power A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic

Name: Routledge Library Editions: Logic- Words of Power
Author: Andrea Nye

Auteur: Andrea Nye

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Andrea Nye

Engels
Hardcover
9780367426873
12 november 2019
202 pagina's

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Originally published in 1990. This confrontational, controversial book challenges the complaint that women are illogical. In a series of studies of historical figures Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Abelard, Ockham, and Frege the author traces the changing interrelationships between logical innovation and oppressive speech strategies.

Originally published in 1990. A common complaint of philosophers, and men in general, has been that women are illogical. On the other hand, rationality, defined as the ability to follow logical argument, is often claimed to be a defining characteristic of man. Andrea Nye undermines assumptions such as: logic is unitary, logic is independent of concrete human relations, logic transcends historical circumstances as well as gender. In a series of studies of the logics of historical figures Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Abelard, Ockham, and Frege she traces the changing interrelationships between logical innovation and oppressive speech strategies, showing that logic is not transcendent truth but abstract forms of language spoken by men, whether Greek ruling citizens, imperial administrators, church officials, or scientists. She relates logical techniques, such as logical division, syllogisms, and truth functions, to ways in which those with power speak to and about those subject to them. She shows, in the specific historical settings of Ancient and Hellenistic Greece, medieval Europe, and Germany between the World Wars, how logicians reworked language so that dialogue and reciprocity are impossible and one speaker is forced to accept the words of another.

In the personal, as well as confrontative style of her readings, Nye points the way to another power in the words of women that might break into and challenge rational discourses that have structured Western thought and practice.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 november 2019
Aantal pagina's: 202
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Hoofdauteur: Andrea Nye
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

Sociale groepen

Filosofie

Genderstudies

Logica

Feminisme

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Taal: Engels
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