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Abigail Rosenthal

Here Be Dragons

These days, I’m taking in the impact of two recent books: Jonathan Leaf’s The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory…

4d ago

Here Be Dragons

4d ago

Under the Chariot Wheels

Of late, I’ve begun to read certain well-regarded women writers. I started with Sylvia Plath and now it’s Joan Didion.

Oct 28

Under the Chariot Wheels

Oct 28

Naked Apes?

Lately I happen to have been reading two books on what Darwin — and his intellectual descendants (like Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene…

Oct 21

Naked Apes?

Oct 21

“My Inescapable Femininity”

Sylvia Plath 1932–1963

Oct 14

“My Inescapable Femininity”

Oct 14

One of a Kind

David Stove was a philosopher of the not-cut-to pattern kind. (Is that a kind? Just how many are there?) For example, he did not hesitate…

Oct 7

One of a Kind

Oct 7

What Was the Woman Question?

Freud asked, “What does woman want?” It’s a good question, and let’s credit him with sincerely wanting to know. Even if his answers weren’t…

Sep 30

What Was the Woman Question?

Sep 30

What Kind of a Man?

I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (in the days before that got to be a swank neighborhood) and, aside from Mr. Z (our superintendent…

Sep 23

What Kind of a Man?

Sep 23

Peterhouse Meets Abbie

Peterhouse was founded in 1284 which makes it the oldest of the colleges in Cambridge University. A “college” provides a residence for…

Sep 16

Peterhouse Meets Abbie

Sep 16

Mystical Merger and Me

Once childhood’s unproblematic days were gone forever, I had to face the question of how to orient myself as a young girl. For some, as I…

Sep 9

Mystical Merger and Me

Sep 9

Where Are the Ex-Friends Now?

This is a week when I’ve been thinking about old friends who are, as it happens, ex-friends. Maybe it’s a special category of friendship.

Sep 2

Where Are the Ex-Friends Now?

Sep 2

Abigail Rosenthal

Abigail Rosenthal

Abigail Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of CUNY. She is the author of A Good Look at Evil, a Pulitzer Prize nominee.

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