On the one hand, Sandberg and her ilk see feminism as a handmaiden of capitalism. They want a world where the task of managing exploitation in the workplace and oppression in the social whole is shared equally by ruling-class men and women.
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“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.”
― The Origin of Others
― The Origin of Others
“If Cleopatra’s nose, said Pascal, had been an inch longer or shorter, all history would have been changed.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.”
― The Origin of Others
― The Origin of Others
“In place of the Absolute as determining history through the Zeitgeist, Marx offered mass movements and economic forces as the basic causes of every fundamental change, whether in the world of things or in the life of thought. Hegel, the imperial professor, had hatched the socialistic eggs.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“Laplace is reported to have said on his deathbed that science was mere trifling, and that nothing was real but love.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
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