Rhetorical Spaces : Essays on Gendered Locations

ISBN-13: 9780415909372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str.

Lorraine Code;Code Lorraine

Opis

This text closes the gap between theory and practice by developing case-by-case analyses of knowing other people in situations where socio-political inequalities create patterns of knowledge, power and privilege. The forms of knowledge that are necessary to inform conceptions of care and empathy are examined. For instance, Code investigates how stereotyping violates the senses of self of the people being stereotyped. She reveals how gossip and story-telling can count as viable sources of knowledge and how testimony can be discounted and discredited in patterns of systematic incredulity. This collection of trenchant essays show how reconfiguring structures of cognitive authority and expertise are matters not just of individual responsibility, but integral to the reconstruction of communities and social orders where people can live well.

Recenzje

"...her work has a subversive potential to pose unasked questions about rhetorically mediated contexts of legitimacy, the social construction of the grounds for "good reasons" and naturalized, taken-for-granted rhetorical spaces that delegitimite or sanction what may count as the force of the better argument." -- Quarterly Journal of Speech

Spis treści

1. Responsibility and Rhetoric; 2. Taking Subjectivity into Account; 3. Incredulity, Experientialism, and the Politics of Knowledge; 4. Persons, and Others; 5. Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology; 6. I know Just How You Feel: Empathy and the Problem of Epistemic Authority; 7. Gossip, or In Praise of Chaos; 8. Voice and Voicelessness: A Modest Proposal?; 9. Must a Feminist Be a Relativist After All?; 10. Critiques of Pure Reason.

O autorze

Lorraine Code is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at York University in Toronto.