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Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Re-Reading the Canon)

by Naomi Scheman

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The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home to their ordinary uses, recognizing that it is our agreements in judgments and forms of life that ground intelligibility; and feminist theory, whose task is to articulate a radical critique of what we say, to disrupt precisely those taken-for-granted agreements in judgments and forms of life.<P>Wittgenstein and feminist theorists are alike, however, in being unwilling or unable to "make sense" in the terms of the traditions from which they come, needing to rely on other means — including telling stories about everyday life — to change our ideas of what sense is and of what it is to make it. For both, appeal to grounding is problematic, but the presumed groundedness of particular judgments remains an unavoidable feature of discourse and, as such, in need of understanding. For feminist theory, Wittgenstein suggests responses to the immobilizing tugs between modernist modes of theorizing and postmodern challenges to them. For Wittgenstein, feminist theory suggests responses to those who would turn him into the "normal" philosopher he dreaded becoming, one who offers perhaps unorthodox solutions to recognizable philosophical problems.<P>In addition to an introductory essay by Naomi Scheman, the volume's twenty chapters are grouped in sections titled "The Subject of Philosophy and the Philosophical Subject, " "Wittgensteinian Feminist Philosophy: Contrasting Visions, " "Drawing Boundaries: Categories and Kinds, " "Being Human: Agents andSubjects, " and "Feminism's Allies: New Players, New Games."

Product Details

ISBN:
9780271021980
Editor:
Scheman, Naomi
Editor:
O'Connor, Peg
Preface:
Tuana, Nancy
Editor:
O'Connor, Peg
Editor:
Scheman, Naomi
Preface:
Tuana, Nancy
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Location:
University Park
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Feminist theory
Subject:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Subject:
History & Surveys - Modern
Series:
Re-Reading the Canon
Series Volume:
107-137.
Publication Date:
August 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
472
Dimensions:
9.02x5.86x1.05 in. 1.44 lbs.

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