Filosofe

Ten portraits of women thinkers who chose philosophy in order to revolutionise and transform the world.

What they all have in common is having initiated a thought revolution through which they interpreted their surrounding reality in an original way. Many among them pictured a political and social revolution that would restore to women the determining social role that was removed from them by a millennium of male domination and relegated them to the home.

Their biographies alone, as well as their intellectual output, prove how vital personal emancipation was for them in order to develop original thinking.

– Louise von Salomé (an irrepressible need for freedom and life);
– Maria Zambrano (thinking poetry and poetic thought);
– Hannah Arendt (plurality is the “law of the earth”);
– Simone de Beauvoir (a philosophy for the liberation of women);
– Simone Weil (duties towards the human creature);
– Agnes Heller (a radical philosophy of the good life);
– Carla Lonzi (the urgency of a “female revolt”);
– Audre Lorde (a lesbian feminist erotic revolution);
– Silvia Federici (female domination and the dominion of capital);
– Judith Butler (gender is performative, the body is political).