For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as
an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of European
culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient
Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed
on first principles. Vigdis Songe-Muller examines the differences
between Presocratic monists like Parmenides, and implicit
pluralists such as Anaximander, and shows how the Greeks made
intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of
humankind. The text re-evaluates Greek mythology, throws a harsh
new light on the invention of democracy, and exposes Platonic
harmony to be an ideal driven by a peculiarly masculine fear of
death. It was a fear that could only be overcome by denying the
significance of difference, and at times even the rightful
existence of that which embodied difference. For the Greek man, the
difference that mattered was nowhere more frighteningly apparent
than in woman.
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