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Centaurs and Amazons - Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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Centaurs and Amazons - Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
Series: Women & Culture
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In Centaurs and Amazons, Page duBois offers a prehistory of
hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and
recent literary theory, she demonstrates a shift in Greek thought
from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. that had a profound
influence upon subsequent Western culture and politics. Through an
analysis of mythology, drama, sculpture, architecture, and Greek
vase painting, duBois documents the transition from a system of
thought that organized the experience of difference in terms of
polarity and analogy to one based upon a relatively rigid
hierarchical scheme. This was the beginning of "the great chain of
being," the philosophical construct that all life was organized in
minute gradations of superiority and inferiority. This scheme, in
various guises, has continued to influence philosophical and
political thought. The author's intelligent and discriminating use
of scholarship from various fields makes Centaurs and Amazons an
impressive interdisciplinary study of interest to classicists,
feminist scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, and
political scientists.
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