The exlusion of women from philosophical discourse

In an interview conducted by Aude Lancelin, the French intellectual Françoise Collin ponders the position of women in the history of philosophy. "Ever since the Greeks, women have always been excluded from philosophical discourse, more than in other disciplines. ... There is of course Hannah Arendt, who every one swears by these days, but she is the exception which proves the rule and besides, she considers herself a political scientist, rather than a philosopher. Maybe this is because the 'professional philosopher', as Arendt ironically puts it, is the secular equivalent of the theologian: he has something of the priest, a ferocious guardian of the truth.”

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