Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520073050 (0520073053)
Publish date: December 18th 1990
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition language: English
One of Jane Flax's projects in Thinking Fragments is to deconstruct or at least question some of the premises of Western metaphysics, such as the mind/body split. In reading Rene Descartes’ philosophy from a feminist perspective, Flax posits that “Descartes’ philosophy can be read as a desperate att...