Volume 63 (2008), 6

The paper gives a definition of the concept of feminist philosophy from both historical and systematic perspectives. The special character of feminist philosophy is examined on the background of a controversial discourse, which has been developed in some of the philosophical sub-disciplines, such as philosophical anthropology, epistemology, the theory of science,… Read more

After having considered of several relevant problems of the visual the paper gives an outline of the anthropology of the visual, which draws from M. Merlau-Ponty and H. Jonas. In its first part the subject-object model is replaced by the conception of intertwining (entre-appartenance) of the viewer and the viewed. Then the load of things is taken off the viewed by… Read more

The aim of the paper is to present the fundamental ideas of S. de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, which led to the conception of the gender and sex and made opening an intensive discussion of sexuality, corporeality and heteronormativity outside the mainstream philosophy, i.e. in feminist philosophy, possible. There were many responses to S. de Beauvoir’s… Read more

Drawing from the analyses of Simone de Beauvoir’s works by current American and Slovak authors the article tries to show the afinity between the philosophical content of Simone de Beauvoir’s writings and feminist epistemologies. After reviewing the contiguity and topics shared by S. de Beauvoir’s and feminist epistemologies, the author unrolls the challenge of… Read more

S. de Beauvoir’s philosophical essay titled The ethics of ambiguity (1974) has been always overshadowed by her most famous book The second sex, a seminal work from feminist point of view. This was unfair (so the author’s argumentation), since the essay marks the way to understanding of the key thesis of the ambiguous condition of… Read more