Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics
Sonia Kruks
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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