World Alienation in Feminist Thought

The Sublime Epistemology of Emphatic Anti-Essentialism

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ID15021856
AuthorsBonnie Mann (0000-0002-7458-2299, Indiana University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume10
Issue2
Pages45-74
Publication date2005-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthics & the Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/ete.2005.10.2.45
OpenAlexW2044424745
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

The alliance between feminism and postmodernism1 in American academy has brought about a revolution in feminist epistemology. The early feminist epistemology of unmasking, of sorting through appearances to get to underneath, has been discredited as essentialist.2 Feminist epistemology was an attempt to respond to this accusation by using social location as a standpoint from which at least local and situated knowledge could be articulated.3 More recently, many feminists have taken on epistemology of simulacrum. Here the real plays a part only as that which dissolves into appearances themselves. Behind appearances, if there were such a place, would be only an abyss of absence. With this revolution in feminist epistemology comes a wholesale dis

Aesthetics · Alienation · Epistemology · Essentialism · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sublime · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology

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