The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415920360 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 254 str.

Christine Battersby

Opis

In her new book, Christine Battersby rethinks questions of embodiment, essence, sameness and difference, self and other, patriarchy and power. Using analyses of Kant, Adorno, Irigaray, Butler, Kierkegaard and Deleuze, she challenges those who argue that a feminist metaphysics is a contradiction in terms. The Phenomenal Woman marks out a place for a metaphysics of fluidity in the current debates concerning postmodernism, feminism and identity politics. It will interest philosophers unfamiliar with feminist theory, and open up debates in feminist philosophy to non-philosophers studying women and gender.

Recenzje

"...clever and imaginative..." -- Karen Struening, Signs
"...Battersby's construction in the book is a model of detail and clarity." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
"The Phenomenal Woman is a startlingly original work of philosophy. In her construction of a new metaphysics, which takes the woman as norm in definitions of self, personhood and identity, Christine Battersby contests the conceptualization of the Kantian subject. Taking the risk of (re)constructive philosophy, she offers a challenge to postmodernist feminisms and their reliance on what she describes as the 'despairing epistemology' of deconstructive postmodernism." -- Margaret Whitford, University of London

O autorze

Christine Battersby is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Gender and Genius (1990).