Nietzsche is regarded by some as a great liberator, a thinker far more radical than Marx. For others, he is an ideologue of power, a spokesman for domination, a protofascist. Ofelia Schutte holds that these conflicting assessments result from a failure to distinguish between two…
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
Singing in the fire: stories of women in philosophy
by Jaggar, Alison M., Nussbaum, Martha C., (Martha Craven), Nye, Andrea, Schutte, Ofelia, Bartky, Sandra Lee, Brennan, Teresa, Card, Claudia, Held, Virginia, Lewis, Stephanie, Narayan, Uma, Shrader-Frechette, K. S., (Kristin Sharon), Warren, Karen
Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates--absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken hu…
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
by Zea, Leopoldo, Gracia, Jorge, Castro Gómez, Santiago, Fornet-Betancourt, Raúl, Mignolo, Walter, Mendieta, Eduardo, Sáenz, Mario, Sáenz, Mario, Castillo, Debra A., Martínez, Rafael Cervantes, Chamizo, Felipe Gil, Jaramillo, María Mercedes, Lara Zavala, María Pía, Petrella, Iván, Álvarez, Roberto Regalado, Schutte, Ofelia
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress…