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OverviewThirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the discipline by rigorously engaging works of contemporary French philosophy. In so doing, they both transform the standard practices of the field and carve out new territory. These writers amplify the work of feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Sarah Kofman in ways that are both stylistically and substantively creative. They also appropriate for radical feminist use the works of male philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The essays illustrate the manner in which feminist philosophers bypass traditional methodology in favor of a disciplinary freedom characterized by fluid methodologies-best exemplified in Beauvoir's work-and by the employment of imaginative forms, including the autobiographical and the poetic. The modes of inquiry used here range variously from psychoanalysis and existentialism to deconstruction, post-structuralism, and newly resurgent phenomenology. This volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography of feminist thinkers who are enacting French philosophy in English, German, and French. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dorothea OlkowskiPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780801486456ISBN 10: 0801486459 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 12 October 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsIf this is, as it claims to be, a volume of feminist enactments of French philosophy, then the word French has a justifiably and admirably broad sense, for French philosophy includes Heidegger, Nietzsche, Bakhtin and Sigmund Freud The 'fathers' of a French feminism that was anything but dutiful. . . . This volume provides a valuable sense and reorientation of some of the key questions for feminist criticism today. The essays do not just interpret already canonized French philosophers for feminism; nor do they apply feminist questions to philosophy. Problems of essentialism, embodiment, aesthetics, and justice are negotiated from a series of competing but mutually provocative perspectives. -Claire Colebrook, Hypatia, vol. 20, no. 1, Winter 2005 Author InformationDorothea Olkowski is Co-Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is the author of Gilles Deleuze and The Ruin of Representation and coeditor of Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, and an additional forthcoming collection on Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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