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Millett's Rationalist Error
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00827.x
2003 by Hypatia, Inc.
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Hypatia
Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics
Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 193–211, August 2003
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EDDINGTON, R. E. (2003), Millett's Rationalist Error. Hypatia, 18: 193–211. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00827.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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This article examines Millett's condemnation of Ruskin in Sexual Politics (1977) to demonstrate that Ruskin's views on women are the product of a specific mode of experience—one that precludes his views being representative of traditional Victorian patriarchy. The article uses Oakeshott's philosophical framework of different modes of experience to illustrate that Millett narrowly interprets Ruskin's statements on women from her own modal perspective without considering his broader belief in the imaginative over the rational faculty.