How is feminist metaphysics possible? A Foucauldian intervention

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5000799
AutoresJ Oksala (0000-0002-1323-3036, University of Helsinki, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas281-296
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700111417667
OpenAlexW2117712089
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

The article defends the importance of metaphysical inquiry in feminist philosophy and interrogates possible directions for such a project. A key aim is questioning the possibility of revisionary metaphysics as well as emphasising the consequences of the linguistic turn for any such project. I argue that before we can embark on any metaphysical inquiry - feminist or otherwise - we are doomed to repeating Immanuel Kant's monumental question of how is metaphysics possible? I then ask how metaphysics is understood in feminist discussions and focus on one contemporary effort to create feminist metaphysics, namely Christine Battersby's The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity (1998). Through a critical analysis of her position I tease out the problems, paradoxes and obstacles that the project of feminist metaphysics faces. Finally, I explicate the politicised conception of reality that I find in Michel Foucault's thought and conclude by considering its consequences for our understanding of feminist metaphysics and politics

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feminist philosophy · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment