Introduction; I. READING TEXTS; 1. Le Doeuff and History of Philosophy; II. RE-READING ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS: IDEALS OF REASON; 2. Socrates and his Twins (The Socrates(es) of Plato's 'Symposium'); 3. Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's 'Symposium': Diotima's Speech; 4. Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal; 5. Therapeutic Arguments and the Structures of Desire; III. RE-READING SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS: MINDS, BODIES, AND PASSIONS; 6. The Passions and Philosophy; 7. Selections from 'The Flight to Objectivity'; 8. Princess Elisabeth and Descartes: The Union of Soul and Body and the Practice of Philosophy; 9. Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous Love and the Hilarity of True Love; IV. RE-READING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS: REASON, EMOTION, AND ETHICS; 10. Hume, the Woman's Moral Theorist; 11. Agency, Attachment, and Difference; V RE-READING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS: RESENTMENT, IRONY, AND THE SUBLIME; 12. On Hegel, Women, and Irony; 13. 'We are not Sublime', Love and Sacrifice, Abraham and Ourselves; 14. 'Is it not remarkable that Nietzsche ... should have hated Rousseau?' Woman, Femininity: Distancing Nietzsche from Rousseau; Further Reading; Index