WOMEN, A FORGOTTEN QUESTION IN PHILOSOPHY: Hermeneutics of the ontological gap

Philosophy has long held up the banner of the universal, claiming to embrace being in its entirety. However, as soon as it tackles the figure of the woman, this fine edifice falters. The universal then gives way, almost systematically, to reductive explanations: simplistic biology or a spirituality tinged with condescension. This failure is no accident. It betrays something essential: when philosophers think, they often imagine themselves to embody a neutral, detached consciousness. In reality, his gaze is historically anchored in a masculinity so obvious to him that it becomes invisible, never questioned."Le Grand Procès de l'Oubli" postulates that modernity's crisis of meaning is not a technical fatality, but the consequence of a metaphysical amnesia. By systematically excluding the feminine perspective from the construction of knowledge, Western philosophy has engendered an "acephalous" and "disembodied" reason, incapable of preserving the fabric of the living. This book proposes to remedy this "seductive nullity" with the advent of a Philosophy of Integrity.

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