ABSTRACT
The gender-partiality mentioned in the last chapter has been specially crippling in the strain of extreme individualism that is generally seen as belonging to the Left: the near-anarchistic strain that descends from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Heidegger to Sartre, and to a wide variety of present-day egoistic individualism, as well as the more right-facing kinds expressed in monetarism and sociobiology. 1 Modern feminists, unfortunately, initially put a lot of confidence in this tradition, and did not at once subject Nietzsche to anything like the well-deserved acid bath that they gave Freud.2 (Simone de Beauvoir's veneration for Sartre probably protected him.) It is worth reflecting on how this strand of tradition significantly (if indirectly) bears on the mind/body problem.
