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#women-in-philosophy
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When Sor Juana protests her own ignorance, is that rhetoric or argument, and does it matter?
One question about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz keeps returning to me. In 1691 she wrote the Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz, her reply to the Bishop of Puebla, who had published her critique of a famous sermon with…
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Reading group: the Elisabeth–Descartes letters of 1643, slowly
I have spent years reading Sor Juana, and one of the things she keeps teaching me is how much philosophy by women survives only in letters, prefaces and replies. So I would like to read the most famous case in early modern…
Started by Valentina Ríos6 replies