[PEN-L:8767] Re: Re: Woman as the Other of Philosophy (was (Fwd)Review of *Hegel andMarx....)

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles wrote: >Think of how all philosophers in the European tradition,
including Marx, most regularly use "man" to refer to the human species the
human type-being. <

It's definitely true that sexism was an undercurrent (if not the main
current in some cases) of European philosophy until the 1970s if not later,
when the feminist movement began to make overt sexism unpopular. After all,
the languages we've inherited from the past are implicitly and/or
explicitly sexist. But, as I understand it, Marx -- and other German
writers -- typically used two different terms, Mann (which means males) and
Mensch (which means people in general). Unfortunately, most translations
into English render both as "man."

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
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