 Genuine love, Susman concludes, is only symbolized in the love of an individual which points to the greater human destiny of love as the bond that sustains humanity as a whole; love in this sense of the word requires the full and undiminished participation of women in their irreducible individuality. Susman’s book thus argues that philosophy can no longer afford to exclude women as philosophers from its discourse because women bring to thought what men are not able to address, demonstrating in the process how such inclusion contributes to a genuine advance in philosophy. As feminist discourse becomes established in the wake of World War I, Susman’s approach to the issue of the status of women continues to develop. The issue of the relation between the genders remains one of the two focal points of her critical agenda, the other one being the question of the place of Jewish thought and tradition in modernity.