- Bookcover of Objectivity, Perspectivity and Difference
- Booktitle:
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Objectivity, Perspectivity and Difference
Issues in Feminist Epistemology
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2014-01-27 )
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- ISBN-13:
978-3-659-51743-3
- ISBN-10:
- 3659517437
- EAN:
- 9783659517433
- Book language:
- Blurb/Shorttext:
- Knowledge is situated, perspectival (and political). The conventional concepts of objectivity are inadequate and misleading, but the related concepts of subjectivism and relativism are even more unacceptable; especially if you are concerned with investigating, comparing and judging claims from other positions in order to reach relevant and closer ‘truth/s’. This book, written in 1993, is a discussion of these issues, and largely supportive of aspects of Marxist and feminist standpoint theory, dialectics and hermeneutics; both as descriptions of how understanding and knowledge actually come about; and as how conscious acknowledgement of situatedness can be used to approach a kind of objectivity that does not pretend to be a ‘view from nowhere, or everywhere’ but a view from a specific somewhere that can be critiqued, enlarged and modified by views from other locations. Among the many theorists discussed are Thomas Nagel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Peter Winch, Hans Georg Gadamer, as well as feminist theorists such as Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Dorothy Smith and Patricia Hill Collins.
- Publishing house:
- LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
- Website:
- https://www.lap-publishing.com/
- By (author) :
- Susan Strickland
- Number of pages:
- 288
- Published on:
- 2014-01-27
- Stock:
- Available
- Category:
- Philosophy
- Price:
- 59.90 €
- Keywords:
- Experience, Understanding, subjectivity, postmodernism, Hermeneutics, Difference, Objectivity, Dialectics, Relativism, Perspectivity, (Feminist) standpoint theory
