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 a contradiction in terms. This book explores place for a metaphysics of fluidity in the current debates concerning postmodernism, feminism and identity politics.
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"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. Firmly grounded in the history of philosophy, Christine Battersby's book offers a new impetus and direction to feminists working in philosophy." Professor Margaret Whitford, University of London "In this philosophically rich text Christine Battersby moves issues of metaphysics and ontology to the centre stage of feminist concern, correcting a preoccupation with epistemology which has been dominant in feminist philosophy during the last decade. Whether we agree or disagree, this challenging book will now form the point from which future discussions of female subjects must depart." Dr Kathleen Lennon, University of Hull "Combining rigorous analysis with accessibility, Christine Battersby has set a new standard for discussion in feminist philosophy. This is a truly remarkable achievement." Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University
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"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. Firmly grounded in the history of philosophy, Christine Battersby's book offers a new impetus and direction to feminists working in philosophy." Professor Margaret Whitford, University of London
"In this philosophically rich text Christine Battersby moves issues of metaphysics and ontology to the centre stage of feminist concern, correcting a preoccupation with epistemology which has been dominant in feminist philosophy during the last decade. Whether we agree or disagree, this challenging book will now form the point from which future discussions of female subjects must depart." Dr Kathleen Lennon, University of Hull
"Combining rigorous analysis with accessibility, Christine Battersby has set a new standard for discussion in feminist philosophy. This is a truly remarkable achievement." Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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I define 'patriarchy' as that form of social organization which takes male bodies and life-patternings as both norm and ideal in the exercise of power. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feminist metaphysics, molar identities, underlying fluidity, transcendental phallus, transcendental object, transcendental self, thinking identity, philosophical past, female selves, phenomenal woman, descriptive metaphysics, full individuality, cognitive semantics, nominal essence, new metaphysics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Judith Butler, Fashion Designer, Johannes the Seducer, Life's Way, Thousand Plateaus, Jacques Lacan, Constantin Constantius, Gender Trouble, Emily Martin, Julia Kristeva, Lacan's Antigone, Mark Johnson, Plato's Symposium, Queen Elizabeth, Sylvia Fraser, Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, Hegel's Antigone, Jane Flax, Kierkegaard's Antigone, Lawrence Kohlberg, Michel Haar New!
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Judith Butler, Fashion Designer, Johannes the Seducer, Life's Way, Thousand Plateaus, Jacques Lacan, Constantin Constantius, Gender Trouble, Emily Martin, Julia Kristeva, Lacan's Antigone, Mark Johnson, Plato's Symposium, Queen Elizabeth, Sylvia Fraser, Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, Hegel's Antigone, Jane Flax, Kierkegaard's Antigone, Lawrence Kohlberg, Michel Haar New!
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- Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray on 6 pages
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer on 4 pages
- Opus postumum by Emmanuel Kant on 4 pages
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