Suchergebnisse

chapter INTRODUCTION -- part Part I READING SILENCE -- chapter 1 SPEAKING SILENCE -- Woman's voice in philosophy -- chapter 2 PHILOSOPHY -- Reading denial -- chapter 3 READING PSYCHOANALYSIS -- Psychotic texts/maternal pre-texts -- chapter 4 Philosophy and silence -- chapter 5 UNQUIET SILENCE -- Kristeva reading Marx with Freud -- part Part II SPEAKING SILENCE -- chapter 6 KRISTEVA -- Naming the problem -- chapter 7 Collecting mothers: women at the Symposium -- Women at the Symsposium -- chapter 8 MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS -- Speaking.

Beauvoir's distinction between romantic and authentic love offers us an opportunity for thinking through the complex relations among philosophy, reading, and love. If we accept her account of romantic love as a flawed, dependent mode of being, and her suggestion that an authentic love—one that engages maturely with the other—is possible, then we might take the risk of thinking of reading in these terms.

The current study was designed to confirm that female drivers sit closer to the steering wheel than do male drivers and to investigate whether this expected difference in sitting position is attributable to differences in the physical dimensions of men and women. Driver body dimensions and multiple measures of sitting distance from the steering wheel were collected from a sample of 150 men and 150 women. The results confirmed that on average, women sit closer to the steering wheel than men do and that this difference is accounted for by variations in body dimensions, especially height. This result suggests that driver height may provide a good surrogate for sitting distance from the steering wheel when investigating the role of driver position in real-world crash outcomes. The potential applications of this research include change to vehicle design that allows independent adjustment of the relative distance among the driver's seat, the steering wheel, and the floor pedals.

This volume presents an acessible and engaging collection of essays by prominent Australasian philosophers, covering a wide array of topics and drawn from a series of public lectures on Philosophy in Australia and Zealand convened over a period of four years. The essays explore the rich philosophical past of Australasia, while also illustrating why philosophy in Australasia ranks highly in influence and esteem