The Feminist Concept of Self and Modernity

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ID4954000
AuthorsWei Xiao (0009-0000-7333-5520, Tsinghua University, corresponding author), Xiao Wei (0000-0003-3534-8835)
Year2009
Volume56
Issue1
Pages117-127
Publication date2009-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiogenes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0392192109102161
OpenAlexW2316321287
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

The relationship between community and individual is the key issue in contemporary political philosophy and ethics. The concept of self seems very important for individualism, communitarianism and feminism when they respond to relationships, particularly when we have to situate selfhood in the conditions of modernity. Consequently, this paper can be divided into seven parts. First it introduces the debate about the concept of the self between individualism and communitarianism. Second, it discusses the feminist critique of this issue and analyses the feminist concept of self, and then addresses modernity as the condition of women. Next it attempts to analyze how women situate themselves in the conditions of modernity. Then it discusses how Chinese women are reshaping their selfhood under the conditions of modernity, and finally draws some brief conclusions claiming that neither communitarian nor individualist self is adequate in contemporary society. Chinese women, it is argued, are expected to reshape their own selfhood resting on the positive side of Confucian ethics and a feminist concept of self

Aesthetics · Communitarianism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Individualism · Liberalism · Modernity · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Self · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions

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