Is Philosophy Androcentric?

Iddo Landau

Published by Penn State University Press 2006

Is Philosophy Androcentric?

Iddo Landau

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271032368

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About this book

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."

Author / Editor information

Landau Iddo :

Iddo Landau is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa.

Reviews

“‘Feminist philosophers’ will buy this book in great volume and attack it with abandon because, in spite of principled objections to the adversarial method, most ‘feminist philosophers’ in the English-speaking world are real philosophers, trained in the adversarial method, who, in spite of pious claims to the contrary, really like beating up on people. This is red meat.”
—Harriet Baber, University of San Diego

“This fine book provides a carefully and closely argued critical examination of the argument that philosophy is androcentric. Treating both analytic and continental traditions, the book is written clearly enough to be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses, but it is also well worth reading by scholars in the field.”
—Sara Worley, Bowling Green State University

“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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Explicit Androcentric Statements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 Associations, Stereotypes, and Social Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4 Harmful Philosophical Notions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5 Metaphors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
6 Values, Interests, and Domination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7 Philosophies and Mentalities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8 Androcentric Omissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
9 A Feminist Alternative? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
10 Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Iddo Landau: philosophy women's studies; western culture feminism sexism

eBook

Published: August 26, 2015
ISBN: 9780271032368