Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations - Couverture rigide

Schumacher, Michele M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1645852903 ISBN 13 : 9781645852902

Editeur : Emmaus Academic, 2023

Synopsis

The emergent "science" of transgenderism and related philosophies of gender propose a full-scale inversion of the understanding of God, man, and the created order articulated in classical metaphysics, undermining and parodying both the causality and ontology voiced by Genesis 1:27 ("God created man in His own image,... male and female He created them."). Whether through subversive performative identity or by surgical sex change, the divinely made human person is now threatened with abolition and replacement by the self-made man and the man-made woman.

In Metaphysics and Gender, Michele M. Schumacher offers a corrective to this distorted and distorting outlook, calling for the recovery of an anthropological vision rooted in recognition of the normative divine "art" of nature and of the likeness―and far greater unlikeness―between divine and human causality. Surveying contemporary transgender trends, Schumacher identifies and excavates their conceptual and ideological foundations in the gender theory of Judith Butler, the existentialist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, and the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. To the erroneous philosophical presuppositions of these thinkers Schumacher contrasts the metaphysically grounded thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, advancing their positive account of the good of creation and of the meaning of ethical norms, human freedom and natural inclinations, and embodiment, and mounting a timely and trenchant defense of the divinely created human person.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michele M. Schumacher, S.T.D., Habil., is a private docent in the faculty of theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In addition to numerous articles on sexual ethics and on women, she is the author of A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014) and God Acting in Man: Founding Human Freedom in Aquinas's Natural Desire to See God Doctrine (forthcoming). She is also the editor of and a contributor to Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Cambridge, UK / Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Emmaus Academic
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1645852903
• ISBN 13: 9781645852902
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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