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A pesar de Platón: Figuras femeninas en la filosofía antigua

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160 pages, Paperback

Published October 16, 2024

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Adriana Cavarero

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Adriana Cavarero teaches philosophy of politics at the University of Verona, Italy, and is a visiting professor at New York University. Her field of research includes classical, modern and contemporary thought, with a special focus on the political significance of philosophy. Two main concerns shape her approach to the Western philosophical tradition. First, the 'thought of sexual difference', a theoretical perspective that enables the deconstruction of Western textuality from a feminist standpoint. Second, the thought of Hannah Arendt, reinterpreted in its most innovative categories: birth, uniqueness, action and narration. The result is an inquiry that foregrounds the individual and unique existence of the human being, as related to body and gender. Cavarero resists both the solitary abstraction of the philosophical Subject, and the volatile fragmentation of the postmodern subject, in the name of the living uniqueness of a self being generated through plural relationships with other human beings, and the acceptance of the constraints of individuality and the body.

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January 17, 2025
El feminismo plantea una idea poderosa: la historia la cuentan los hombres. Sin embargo, eso no significa que las ideas a lo largo de la historia no tengan un componente universal y humano que trascienda el género, como las reflexiones sobre el sentido de la vida, el amor y la muerte. Este planteamiento también nos lleva a cuestionar si lo que entendemos como universalidad ha sido moldeado principalmente por una perspectiva masculina. Es posible, y este libro lo demuestra con Platón, al igual que lo hicieron Virginia Woolf y Simone de Beauvoir. Creo que es importante mantener un equilibrio entre reconocer las ideas universales y los sesgos históricos, al tiempo que reflexionamos sobre las transformaciones que el feminismo ha aportado en su historia. Un debate muy interesante.
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March 23, 2025
Un libro súper interesante y que puede ser un punto de partida para buscar más información sobre los temas que habla, aunque a veces lo repite todo muchas veces
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