Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays included in this volume show that it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences about women and other Others to find rich resources for feminist theory and practice in his views of science, language, history, knowledge, medicine, and literature. While the essayists find much of value in Gadamer's work, he emerges from their discussion as a controversial figure. Some contributors see him as promoting genuine respect for and engagement with Otherness: others claim that in a Gadamerian conversation the Other has no voice. For some, Gadamer's immersion in tradition is an impediment to feminist inquiry; for others, cognizant of the need to understand tradition well in order to contest its intransigence or benefit from its insights, his way of engaging tradition is especially productive. Some contributors take issue with the separation he maintains between philosophy and politics; others find problems in his relative silence on matters of embodiment; still others maintain that a "fusion of horizons" amounts to a colonizing of difference. But a common aim of each of these controversies is to discern what feminists can learn from Gadamer as well as what limitations feminist reinterpretations of his work must inevitably encounter. Contributors are Linda Martin Alcoff, William Cowling, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Marie Fleming, Silja Freudenberger. Susan Hekman, Susan Judith Hoffmann, Grace M. Jantzen, Patricia Altenbernd Johnson, Laura Kaplan, Robin Pappas, Robin May Schott, Meili Steele, Veronica Vasterling, Georgia Warnke, and Kathleen Roberts Wright.
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Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate Programs in Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies, at York University in Toronto. Her other books include Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (editor, 2000), Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on (Gendered) Locations (1995), What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge (1991), and Epistemic Responsibility (1987).
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- Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer on 71 pages
- Philosophical Apprenticeships (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Hans-Georg Gadamer on 10 pages
- Gadamer and Hermeneutics (Continental Philosophy) by Hugh J. Silverman on 9 pages
- The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Library of Living Philosophers) by Lewis Edwin Hahn on 8 pages
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- Hiding from History: Politics And Public Imagination by Meili Steele in Back Matter
- Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli (Re-Reading the Canon) by Maria J. Falco in Front Matter
- Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Ruth E. Groenhout on page 190
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