Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey - Brossura

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock

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ISBN 10: 0271021616 ISBN 13: 9780271021614

Casa editrice: Penn State University Press, 2001

Riassunto

This is the first collection of essays to evaluate John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy from a feminist perspective. The variety of feminist interpretations offered here ranges from Jane Addams's praise for his collegial efforts to resolve the problems of the inner city to contemporary comparisons of his approach with Addams's own critique of capitalism as patriarchal. In between are essays assessing Dewey's contributions to feminist theory and practice both in his lifetime and in regard to contemporary feminist approaches to education, subjectivity, objectivity and truth, and social and political philosophy.

At a time when feminists are questioning and developing alternatives to the scientistic value-free inquiry advocated by logical positivism, the myth of detached observation informing the epistemological turn, rationalistic ethics, and the model of an unattached, nonrelational subject, this book reminds us of Dewey's early and passionate opposition to the same assumptions and his reconstruction of philosophy as a "method of moral and political diagnoses and prognosis." It has often been remarked that Dewey's pragmatism provides a genuine alternative to the usual masculinist biases of Western philosophy, and the various essays in this book develop this claim more extensively.

Contributors, besides the editor, are Jane Addams, Ana M. Martínez Alemán, Paula Droege, Marilyn Fischer, Eugenie Gatens-Robinson, Judith M. Green, Lisa Heldke, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Erin McKenna, Marjorie C. Miller, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, and Shannon Sullivan.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Charlene Haddock Seigfried is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Her books include Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penn State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0271021616
• ISBN 13: 9780271021614
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 332