
Resistance, Flight, Creation
Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy
Dorothea Olkowski(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 10. October 2000
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8014-3742-7 (ISBN)
Description
Thirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the discipline by rigorously engaging works of contemporary French philosophy. In so doing, they both transform the standard practices of the field and carve out new territory. These writers amplify the work of feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Sarah Kofman in ways that are both stylistically and substantively creative. They also appropriate for radical feminist use the works of male philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The essays illustrate the manner in which feminist philosophers bypass traditional methodology in favor of a disciplinary freedom characterized by fluid methodologies-best exemplified in Beauvoir's work-and by the employment of imaginative forms, including the autobiographical and the poetic. The modes of inquiry used here range variously from psychoanalysis and existentialism to deconstruction, post-structuralism, and newly resurgent phenomenology. This volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography of feminist thinkers who are enacting French philosophy in English, German, and French.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-3742-7 (9780801437427)
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Dorothea Olkowski is Co-Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is the author of Gilles Deleuze and The Ruin of Representation and coeditor of Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, and an additional forthcoming collection on Maurice Merleau-Ponty.