Screen LibraryAncient women philosophers : recovered ideas and new perspectives /
"This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philos...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philosophical traditions"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781316516188 1316516180 9781009013895 1009013890 |
| Index Number: | B105 |
| CLC: | B12 |
| Call Number: | B12/A541 |
| Contents: |
The value of women philosophers for the history of philosophy / Beyond gender : the voice of Diotima / Sulabhā and Indian philosophy : rhetoric, gender, and freedom in the Mahābhārata / Women's medical knowledge in antiquity : beyond midwifery / Ancient women Epicureans and their anti-hedonist critics / Arete of Cyrene and the role of women in philosophical lineage / Women at the crossroads : life and death for the Stoic wife / Pythagorean women and the domestic as a philosophical topic / Perictione, mother of metaphysics : a new philosophical reading of On Wisdom / Not veiled in silence : the case for Macrina / Women philosophers and ideals of being a woman in Neoplatonic schools of late antiquity : the examples of Sosipatra of Ephesus and Hypatia of Alexandria / Reappraising Ban Zhao : the advent of Chinese women philosophers / The reception of Plato on women : Proclus, Averroes, Marinella / |