Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Title Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty PDF eBook
Author Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 304
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0271047046

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Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Title Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty PDF eBook
Author Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 308
Release 2006
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780271029177

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Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. The essays presented here attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory.

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Title Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty PDF eBook
Author Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher Penn State University Press
Pages 290
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780271029184

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More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. Does his emphasis on physical subjectivity lend a certain agency to all bodies, regardless of sex? Or do Merleau-Ponty's specific descriptions of physical experience betray an intrinsic bias toward a male heterosexual point of view? The essays presented here by Olkowski and Weiss attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory, while impartially evaluating his contributions, both positive and negative, to that theory. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Jorella Andrews, David Brubaker, Judith Butler, Laura Doyle, Helen Fielding, Vicki Kirby, Sonia Kruks, Ann Murphy, Johanna Oksala, and Beata Stawarska.

Feminist Phenomenology

Feminist Phenomenology
Title Feminist Phenomenology PDF eBook
Author Linda Fisher
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 399
Release 2013-04-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9401594880

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This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida. Those papers have been revised and expanded for publication in the present volume and several essays have been added. We would like to thank very much all the participants in the symposium, including the session chairs and others in attendance, whose interest and enthusiasm contributed greatly. The symposium and this volume, including the name for it, were conceived of by Lester Embree, who also arranged sponsorship, local arrangements, and publication through the William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida Atlantic University and the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. The invitees were decided upon jointly. Linda Fisher has been chiefly responsible for the editing and the preparation of the camera-ready copy. Linda Fisher Lester Embree Acknowledgments The editing and preparation of this volume has spanned several cities and two continents and I am indebted to many people from each place.

Embodied Care

Embodied Care
Title Embodied Care PDF eBook
Author Maurice Hamington
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 198
Release 2010-10-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0252091469

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Until now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body's centrality to care ethics, doing so by analyzing our corporeality at the phenomenological level. It develops the idea that our bodies are central to our morality, paying particular attention to the ways we come to care for one another. Hamington's argues that human bodies are "built to care"; as a result, embodiment must be recognized as a central factor in moral consideration. He takes the reader on an exciting journey from modern care ethics to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the body and then to Jane Addams's social activism and philosophy. The ideas in Embodied Care do not lead to yet another competing theory of morality; rather, they progress through theory and case studies to suggest that no theory of morality can be complete without a full consideration of the body.

Feminist Phenomenology Futures

Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Title Feminist Phenomenology Futures PDF eBook
Author Helen A. Fielding
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 403
Release 2017-06-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0253030110

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Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, and the very nature and boundaries of the female body. Entanglements with thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, and Arendt are evident and reveal new directions for productive philosophical work. Grounded in the richness of the feminist philosophical tradition, this work represents a significant opening to the possible futures of feminist phenomenological research.

A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
Title A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir PDF eBook
Author Laura Hengehold
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 548
Release 2017-10-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1118796020

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Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title! The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir’s contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Companion examines Beauvoir’s rich intellectual life from a variety of angles—including literary, historical, and anthropological perspectives—and situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoir’s philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars. Ambitious and unprecedented in scope, A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.