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  • Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds
    Andrea Nye
    Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity’s place in the natural world.In Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds, Andrea Nye raises a question: In a time of climate change and environmental crisis, where should we look f...
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    49,42 €

  • Words of Power
    Andrea Nye
    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 tr...
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  • Socrates and Diotima
    Andrea Nye
    Few women’s voices have survived from the antiquity period, but evidence shows that, especially in the area of religion, women were influential in Greek culture. Drawing on Socrates’ Symposium , Nye advances this notion by not only exploring the original religious meaning of Diotima’s teaching but also how that meaning has been lost throughout time. ...
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    48,00 €

  • Feminism and Modern Philosophy
    Andrea Nye
    Feminism and Modern Philosophy introduces students to the main thinkers and themes of modern philosophy from different feminist perspectives, and highlights the role of gender in studying classic philosophical texts. ...
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    73,62 €

  • Princess and the Philosopher
    Andera Nye / Andrea Nye
    For a number of years, those interested in recovering women’s thought have known about Princess Elisabeth, a seventeenth-century correspondent and friend of Descartes whose questions provoked the philosopher to think more seriously about ethics and the passions. Up to now, only a few of her letters have found their way into print. This volume includes translations of all of Eli...
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    54,55 €

  • Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man
    Andrea Nye
    In the past decade there has been an explosion of feminist theory - in many cases depending on theoretical foundations borrowed from men. Andrea Nye critically examines the ambivalent relationship between feminists and male theory. ...
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    77,27 €