Sex, Gender, and Class in the Poem of Parmenides: Difference without Dualism?
Abstract Parmenides has been criticized as denying and disparaging human diversity; anathematizing sex, reproduction, and bodies; supporting the suppression of women and others outside the Greek ruling classes; and silencing important concerns by excluding certain kinds of thought and reasoning from...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Philology Vol. 140; no. 1; pp. 29 - 67 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring2019
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| Sumario: | Abstract Parmenides has been criticized as denying and disparaging human diversity; anathematizing sex, reproduction, and bodies; supporting the suppression of women and others outside the Greek ruling classes; and silencing important concerns by excluding certain kinds of thought and reasoning from philosophical and civil discourse. I argue that the fragments do not support these charges, and that instead Parmenides provides ideas and ways of thinking that subvert the kinds of doctrine and ways of philosophizing he is accused of promoting. |
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