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Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory

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Gilligan's ground-breaking project which gave rise to the notion of the multiplicity of moral voices provides the groundwork for Hekman's attempts to defend what she terms Foucault's and Lyotard's "political post-modernism" against Derrida's "apolitical post-modernism". Hekman's efforts are very promising for those working in fields that grope in the dark seeking a way out of the abyss of post-modernist nihilism. She argues that the only hope for amplifying the voices of the marginalised, be they women, minorities, etc. is through adopting Foucault's notion of discourse to dispense with the universalisms of the enlightenment in order to pave the way for more localised moral voices. Once the local is recognised, no one group can claim that its morality or ethical values are superior and ought to be universalised. Hekman's efforts are to be commended, however, the lack of reference to a methodology through-which her ambitious project could be realised, was the books main and probably only flaw.