Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art.
Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the 'other' in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical 'female sublime'. A central feature of The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is its engagement with recent debates around...
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work,...
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art.
Through a compelling examination of terror, transcendence and the other in key European philosophers and writers, Battersby articulates a radical female sublime. A central feature of The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference is its engagement...
Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new wo...
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...
In her new book, Christine Battersby rethinks questions of embodiment, essence, sameness and difference, self and other, patriarchy and power. Using a...
This volume enters the controversial territory of feminist metaphysics. The author re-works the account of the self in modernity and postmodernity, and asks, What would happen if we re-thought identity in ways that take the female as norm?
This volume enters the controversial territory of feminist metaphysics. The author re-works the account of the self in modernity and postmodernity, an...
This volume enters the controversial territory of feminist metaphysics. The author re-works the account of the self in modernity and postmodernity, and asks, What would happen if we re-thought identity in ways that take the female as norm?
This volume enters the controversial territory of feminist metaphysics. The author re-works the account of the self in modernity and postmodernity, an...
