Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400–1400. By Marcia L. Colish. Yale Intellectual History of the West 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xii + 388 pp. $40.00 cloth.

1998 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-759
Author(s):  
Barbara Newman
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
The West ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Intellectual

The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America By Norma Thompson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 256p. $35.00. Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics Edited by Eduardo A. Velasquez. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. 385p. $80.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 625-626
Author(s):  
Catherine Zuckert
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Western Intellectual

These books have similar aims and are written from a similar perspective. There are, however, important differences in content, emphasis, and form. Norma Thompson explicitly seeks to show that the Western intellectual tradition is not misogynist. One reason that it is not, she urges, is that it is not univocal. Within the tradition one can find several very different views of the character and relation of men and women. Introducing the volume he edited, Eduardo Velasquez states, “This collection of essays does not purport to give an answer to the question of what are ‘nature’ and ‘woman,’ at least not in an immediate, definitive sense. Rather, the comprehensive aim here is to reopen questions as to the ‘nature of nature,’ the ‘nature of woman’ with consideration given to the consequences of pairing some understanding of ‘nature’ with that of ‘woman’” (p. xi). A collection of essays necessarily contains a variety of voices.

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