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22%OFF. Ed(S): Leon, Celine; Walsh, Sylvia - Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard - 9780271016993 - V9780271016993
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Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard

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Description for Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard paperback. Editor(s): Leon, Celine; Walsh, Sylvia. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 537.

Unlike many of the major figures in Western philosophy, Kierkegaard explores many issues of interest to feminist theorists today. Moreover, he does so in a style—labyrinthine, many-voiced, multilayered, adverse to authority—that adumbrates écriture féminine.

A major question probed in the volume is whether Kierkegaard's writings are misogynist, ambivalent, or essentialist in their views of women and the feminine or whether, in some important and vital ways, they are liberatory and empowering for feminists and women trying to free themselves from the maze of patriarchal constructs.

The essays also show how the three existence-spheres—aesthetic, ethical, and religious—articulated in Kierkegaard's authorship inscribe different modalities ... Read more

Contributors are Sylviane Agacinski, Wanda Warren Berry, Birgit Bertung, Jane Duran, Leslie A. Howe, Céline Léon, Tamsin Lorraine, Robert L. Perkins, Mark L. Taylor, Sylvia Walsh, and Julia Watkin.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Series
Re-Reading the Canon
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271016993
SKU
V9780271016993
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About . Ed(S): Leon, Celine; Walsh, Sylvia
Céline Léon is Professor of French and Humanities at Grove City College. Her publications include articles on Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary French feminism. Sylvia Walsh, who has taught at Clark Atlanta University and Stetson University, is the author of Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics (Penn State, 1994).

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