Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic

ISBN-13: 9780367426903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Andrea Nye

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Prologue. Introduction: Reading Logic  Part 1: Classical Logic  1. The Desire of Logic: Parmenides’s Passion  2. Weaving the Seine of Logos: Plato and the Sophist  3. Aristotle’s Syllogisms  4. Logos Spermatikos: The Logic of Empire  Part 2: Medieval Logic  5. An Arsenal of Reasons: Abelard’s Dialectic  6. The Antinomies of Power: Ockham’s Razor  Part 3: Reading Frege  7. Breaking the Power of the Word  8. The Marriage of Mathematics and Language  9. Frege’s Thoughts  10. A Thought like a Hammer: The Logic of Totalitarianism.  Conclusion: Words of Power and the Power of Words　

O autorze

Andrea Nye