The biggest challenge to Sharp's interpretation and deployment of Spinoza is the latter's anthropocentrism and androcentrism. |
Nonetheless, I am reminded of a remark that if science is androcentric, then this is the best endorsement for androcentrism that one can find. |
Feminism is the antithesis of patriarchy, but not of androcentrism, despite the fact that this meaning is widely accepted. |
Unfortunately, as Farquhar points out, these texts also normalize androcentrism. |
They maintain that androcentrism as seen in traditional power-wielding patriarchal society is responsible for the striving to dominate nature. |
Feminism addresses androcentrism, ecocriticism addresses anthropocentrism, and feminist ecocriticism addresses both together. |