A Woman's Thought or a Man's Discipline? The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 1-22

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger project of recovering the work of women thinkers. Heloise has traditionally been read as either a foil of Abelard or his intellectual appendage. In this paper, I present her views on love, religious devotion, and language as an alternative to philosophic method as it is conceived by Abelard.