Summary
Celia Amoros: A Contribution to the Critique of the Patriarchal Mind
In "A Contribution to the Critique of the Patriarchal Mind" (19851), Celia Amoros presents the traditional philosophical logos as a false, ideologically distorted expression of the alleged transcendental subjectivity and self-awareness of the entire human race from which women are excluded. The nature-culture dichotomy, although a mythical and archaic pattern of thought, is used in philosophical and social thought to justify women's subjugation until modern times. In modern and Enlightenment thought, the hypocrisy and contradiction of the discourse, which conceives reason as the basis of human subjectivity and the universal property of all people, but nevertheless positions women as the Other and as nature, is manifested with particular force. The object of her criticism, however, is not only traditional "male" philosophy; the author warns of the dangers hidden in some feminist starting points, especially in the so-called the discourse of female difference that relies on the mystification and glorification of women as nature that opposes destructive male culture. "Feminism of difference" is assessed as essentialist and the author stands for "feminism of equality". In addition, she claims that she deals with philosophical feminism and not feminist philosophy, as well as that her work is primarily based on the deconstruction of patriarchal philosophy.
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