Feminist interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein / edited by Naomi Scheman and Peg O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheman, Naomi.

O'Connor, Peg, 1965-

Series:

Re-reading the canon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 472 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2002]

Summary:

The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home to their ordinary uses, recognizing that it is our agreements in judgments and forms of life that ground intelligibility; and feminist theory, whose task is to articulate a radical critique of what we say, to disrupt precisely those taken-for-granted agreements in judgments and forms of life.

Contents:

Section I The Subject of Philosophy and the Philosophical Subject

1 Philosophy, Language, and Wizardry / Phyllis Rooney 25

2 Wittgenstein, Feminism, and the Exclusions of Philosophy / Nancy E. Baker 48

3 Speaking Philosophy in the Voice of Another: Wittgenstein, Irigaray, and the Inheritance of Mimesis / Tim Craker 65

Section II Wittgensteinian Feminist Philosophy: Contrasting Visions

4 What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology? / Alice Crary 97

5 Making Mistakes, Rendering Nonsense, and Moving Toward Uncertainty / Sarah Lucia Hoagland 119

6 Tractatio Logico-Philosophica: Engendering Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Daniel Cohen 138

7 The Moral Language Game / Susan Hekman 159

8 The Short Life of Meaning: Feminism and Nonliteralism / Jane Braaten 176

Section III Drawing Boundaries: Categories and Kinds

9 "Back to the Rough Ground!": Wittgenstein, Essentialism, and Feminist Methods / Cressida J. Heyes 195

10 Wittgenstein Meets 'Woman' in the Language-Game of Theorizing Feminism / Hilde Lindemann Nelson 213

11 Using Wittgensteinian Methodology to Elucidate the Meaning of "Equality" / Christine M. Koggel 235

12 Eleanor Rosch and the Development of Successive Wittgensteinian Paradigms for Cognitive Science / Nalini Bhushan 259

Section IV Being Human: Agents and Subjects

13 Words and Worlds: Some Thoughts on the Significance of Wittgenstein for Moral and Political Philosophy / Judith Bradford 287

14 Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Universal Dogs: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Patricia Williams Talk About the Logic of Conceptual Rearing / Sandra W. Churchill 305

15 Developing Wittgenstein's Picture of the Soul: Toward a Feminist Spiritual Erotics / Deborah Orr 322

16 "No Master, Outside or In": Wittgenstein's Critique of the Proprietary Subject / Janet Farrell Smith 344

Section V Feminism's Allies: New Players, New Games

17 Wittgensteinian Vision(s) and "Passionate Detachments": A Queer Context for a Situated Episteme / Wendy Lynne Lee 367

18 Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour as Remarks on Racism / Bruce Krajewski 389

19 Culture, Nature, Ecosystem (or Why Nature Can't Be Naturalized) / Rupert Read 408

20 Moving to New Boroughs: Transforming the World by Inventing Language Games / Peg O'Connor 432.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-453) and index.

ISBN:

0271021977

0271021985

OCLC:

49618758