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Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics

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Description for Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.

In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory—a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.

Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484179
SKU
V9780801484179
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About Sonia Kruks
Sonia Kruks is Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics and has served as the Director of the Women's Studies Program at Oberlin College. She is the author of The Political Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society and coeditor of Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism.

Reviews for Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics
Overall Retrieving Experience makes an outstanding political contribution to post-postmodern understandings of the subject that move significantly beyond the current impasse of the Enlightenment/postmodern nexus. Kruks retelling of a tale... offers insights that should well invigorate international mainstream discussions of the subject as well as feminist political engagements into the new millennium.
Mary Walsh, University of Canberra
Australian ... Read more

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