The Free Review, Vol. 6: A Monthly Magazine; April to September, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

G. Astor Singer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243893604 ISBN 13: 9780243893607

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Free Review, Vol. 6: A Monthly Magazine; April to September, 1896

Among the harsher critics of women in this century, Arthur Schopenhauer, the philosopher of Pessimism, stands pre-eminent. His essays On Women and The Metaphysics of Love have been placed upon the index of women as the heretical ravings of a carping and unchivalrous critickin. Very few women have read these disquisitions, and probably an infinitely small proportion of these are in agreement with the writer's contentions. Women have, however, been more mordant and ruthless than men in their judgments upon women. Lady Mary Wortley Montague's solace for being a woman was that she would not have to marry one; Mary Wollstonecraft said that the talk of schoolmisses and women living in communities was almost on a par with the double meanings which shake the convivial table when the glass has circulated freely Madame de Stael had not a very high esteem for her sex; a Madame de whose Opinion is quoted by Monseigneur Dupanloup, in his Studious Women remarked that woman is a weak, ignorant, timid, idle being, who has violent passions with small ideas, a bundle of caprice and inconsecutiveness; a precious combination of hopefulness and cruelty and Mrs. Lynn Linton is peculiarly incisive in her diatribes upon advanced women of the present day. Schopenhauer is not more severe than some of these. His essay On Women is an admirable piece of literary workmanship; and if he is swayed by bias in his examination of the feminine character, still the thesis is that of a cautious and severely-trained meta physician.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243893604
• ISBN 13: 9780243893607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680