Critique of patriarchal reason - Softcover

Pietronigro, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964538415 ISBN 13: 9780964538412

Publisher: White Crane Press, 1997

Synopsis

An explosive indictment of analytic philosophy and science. Arthur Evans exposes the patriarchal biases underlying modern "rationality." Evans shows how these biases have infected formal logic, higher mathematics, and the scientific method. He demonstrates the harmful impact they have had on women, gay people, artists, indigenous societies, and the natural environment. In place of these biases, he offers a new, liberating view of the role of reason in human life. Among the many thinkers discussed in the book is Ludwig Wittgenstein. A surprising connection is uncovered between Wittgenstein's theories of logic and language on one hand, and his conflicted attitude toward his homosexuality on the other.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Evan's book is written in an accessible style, and includes original illustrations by San Francisco artist Frank Pietronigro. This joint project in philosophy and art is an award winner from the San Francisco Art Commission. Critique of Patriarchal Reason opens the window of Western philosophy. Read it, and you will discover a whole new way of looking at your own life and at the world around you.

About the Author:

Arthur Evans is the author of The God of Ecstasy (St. Martin's, 1988), and Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture (Fag Rag Books, 1978).

About this edition

• Publisher: White Crane Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0964538415
• ISBN 13: 9780964538412
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373
• Illustrator: Evans Arthur