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A New-old Topos for the Future. Rethinking and Rediscovering Oneself as Human

  • Valentina Gaudiano
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Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History
This chapter is in the book Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History

Abstract

The consequences of the pandemic, especially the relational ones, are so many and so intertwined that a new focus on the question of the human being by philosophers becomes necessary. Despite the experienced physical limitation of proximity and sharing of emotions, it seems fundamental to rethink the human under these aspects. Giving back to love an ontological value and reaffirming its absolute essentiality to understand the human being and his relationships, we could trace a new-old topos for the future, something as the relationship expressed through the image of the embrace - as a plastic image of me, of each of us, who welcomes and holds in his/her arms another person and doing so says: I love you, you belong to me, I’m with you, I’m by you, I’m you.

Abstract

The consequences of the pandemic, especially the relational ones, are so many and so intertwined that a new focus on the question of the human being by philosophers becomes necessary. Despite the experienced physical limitation of proximity and sharing of emotions, it seems fundamental to rethink the human under these aspects. Giving back to love an ontological value and reaffirming its absolute essentiality to understand the human being and his relationships, we could trace a new-old topos for the future, something as the relationship expressed through the image of the embrace - as a plastic image of me, of each of us, who welcomes and holds in his/her arms another person and doing so says: I love you, you belong to me, I’m with you, I’m by you, I’m you.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations XI
  5. Part I: Introduction
  6. Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment and Gender History. Shaping the Future – Rethinking the Past. 1
  7. The Beginnings: A Retrospective View by a Former Board Member of the IAPh 13
  8. Part II: Economics, Technology, Environment
  9. Economic Theory and Moral Imagination 23
  10. Ecology and Economy. Feminist Perspectives 35
  11. Towards a Feminist Theory of Money. Patriarchal Economic Structures, the Aristotelian Concept of Justice and the Intermediacy of Money 45
  12. Gender Justice and Ecological Issues 57
  13. Sultana’s Dream: Eco[U]topian and Feminist Intersections 69
  14. Ontogenealogies of Body-Environments: Perspectives for an Experiential Ontological Shift 81
  15. Women, Nature and Neocolonial Struggles: Different Perspectives on Indigenous Women’s Position 97
  16. From Cyberfeminism and Technofeminism to an Ontological and Feminist Technology 109
  17. The Third Knowledge Dimension: From a Binary System to a Three-limbed Epistemology 119
  18. Social Machines in a Data-driven World 129
  19. Smart Feminist Cities: The Case of Barcelona en Comú 137
  20. User Experience as Enlightenment: User Experience for Women Philosophers’ Presentation 147
  21. Artificial Intelligence in Ancient Rome: Classical Roman Philosophy on Legal Subjectivity 157
  22. Part III: History (Non-Western and Western)
  23. Pursuits of Global Gendered Intellectual History: Stories from India 171
  24. Yosano Akikoʼs Philosophy and Poetry – Modernization of Japan and Womenʼs Liberation 191
  25. A Philosophical Defense of Self-Defense: Examining Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’ Reply to Sor Filotea 203
  26. Le rôle des oeuvres de Rousseau dans les mouvements féministes en Chine moderne 217
  27. Mind of Nature: Cavendish’s Argument for Panpsychism 235
  28. First Principles: The Path to Women’s Emancipation in Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman 249
  29. Women’s Access to French Philosophy: A Forgotten History (1880–1924) 261
  30. Hannah Höch: Notes on Violence and Vulnerability 271
  31. Part IV: Gender Issues and Feminist Concepts
  32. Feminist Philosophy and Democracy: The Case of Spain 285
  33. Gender Equality in Colombia’s Philosophy Programs: Faculty Participation 295
  34. Teaching Islamic Feminisms in the History of Philosophy in Mexico: A Decolonial and Feminist Effort 323
  35. From Self-awareness to Political and Social Improvement: A Feminist Identitarian Path 335
  36. “Je me révolte, donc nous sommes”: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Refugee Resistances through the Butlerian Reconstruction of Hannah Arendt’s Public Sphere 347
  37. Covid-19 and “Stay at Home”: A Contrast Dye That Highlights Gender Violence and the Violence of Inequity 361
  38. A New-old Topos for the Future. Rethinking and Rediscovering Oneself as Human 371
  39. Contributors to This Volume 381
  40. Index of Names 389
  41. Index of Subjects 393
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111051802-032

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Table of Contents VII
  4. Abbreviations XI
  5. Part I: Introduction
  6. Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment and Gender History. Shaping the Future – Rethinking the Past. 1
  7. The Beginnings: A Retrospective View by a Former Board Member of the IAPh 13
  8. Part II: Economics, Technology, Environment
  9. Economic Theory and Moral Imagination 23
  10. Ecology and Economy. Feminist Perspectives 35
  11. Towards a Feminist Theory of Money. Patriarchal Economic Structures, the Aristotelian Concept of Justice and the Intermediacy of Money 45
  12. Gender Justice and Ecological Issues 57
  13. Sultana’s Dream: Eco[U]topian and Feminist Intersections 69
  14. Ontogenealogies of Body-Environments: Perspectives for an Experiential Ontological Shift 81
  15. Women, Nature and Neocolonial Struggles: Different Perspectives on Indigenous Women’s Position 97
  16. From Cyberfeminism and Technofeminism to an Ontological and Feminist Technology 109
  17. The Third Knowledge Dimension: From a Binary System to a Three-limbed Epistemology 119
  18. Social Machines in a Data-driven World 129
  19. Smart Feminist Cities: The Case of Barcelona en Comú 137
  20. User Experience as Enlightenment: User Experience for Women Philosophers’ Presentation 147
  21. Artificial Intelligence in Ancient Rome: Classical Roman Philosophy on Legal Subjectivity 157
  22. Part III: History (Non-Western and Western)
  23. Pursuits of Global Gendered Intellectual History: Stories from India 171
  24. Yosano Akikoʼs Philosophy and Poetry – Modernization of Japan and Womenʼs Liberation 191
  25. A Philosophical Defense of Self-Defense: Examining Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’ Reply to Sor Filotea 203
  26. Le rôle des oeuvres de Rousseau dans les mouvements féministes en Chine moderne 217
  27. Mind of Nature: Cavendish’s Argument for Panpsychism 235
  28. First Principles: The Path to Women’s Emancipation in Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman 249
  29. Women’s Access to French Philosophy: A Forgotten History (1880–1924) 261
  30. Hannah Höch: Notes on Violence and Vulnerability 271
  31. Part IV: Gender Issues and Feminist Concepts
  32. Feminist Philosophy and Democracy: The Case of Spain 285
  33. Gender Equality in Colombia’s Philosophy Programs: Faculty Participation 295
  34. Teaching Islamic Feminisms in the History of Philosophy in Mexico: A Decolonial and Feminist Effort 323
  35. From Self-awareness to Political and Social Improvement: A Feminist Identitarian Path 335
  36. “Je me révolte, donc nous sommes”: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Refugee Resistances through the Butlerian Reconstruction of Hannah Arendt’s Public Sphere 347
  37. Covid-19 and “Stay at Home”: A Contrast Dye That Highlights Gender Violence and the Violence of Inequity 361
  38. A New-old Topos for the Future. Rethinking and Rediscovering Oneself as Human 371
  39. Contributors to This Volume 381
  40. Index of Names 389
  41. Index of Subjects 393
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