Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue : Liberating Traditions / Jennifer McWeeny, Ashby Butnor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butnor, Ashby, editor.

McWeeny, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--Asia.

Feminist theory.

Philosophy, Asian.

Local Subjects:

Feminist theory--Asia.

Feminist theory.

Philosophy, Asian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world. These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword / Deutsch, Eliot

Acknowledgments

Feminist Comparative Methodology / Butnor, Ashby / McWeeny, Jennifer

PART ONE. Gender and Potentiality

CHAPTER ONE. Kamma , No-Self, and Social Construction / Hu, Hsiao-Lan

CHAPTER TWO. On the Transformative Potential of the "Dark Female Animal" in Daodejing / Lee, Kyoo

CHAPTER THREE. Confucian Family-State and Women / Herr, Ranjoo Seodu

PART TWO. Raising Consciousness

CHAPTER FOUR. Mindfulness, Anātman , and the Possibility of a Feminist Self-consciousness / Maitra, Keya

CHAPTER FIVE. Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge / McWeeny, Jennifer

PART THREE. Places of Knowing

CHAPTER SIX. What Would Zhuangzi Say to Harding? / Jiang, Xinyan

CHAPTER SEVEN. "Epistemic Multiculturalism" and Objectivity / Dalmiya, Vrinda

PART FOUR. Cultivating Ethical Selves

CHAPTER EIGHT. Confucian Care / Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa

CHAPTER NINE. The Embodied Ethical Self / McCarthy, Erin

CHAPTER TEN. Dōgen, Feminism, and the Embodied Practice of Care / Butnor, Ashby

PART FIVE. Transforming Discourse

CHAPTER ELEVEN. De-liberating Traditions / Goswami, Namita

Feminist Comparative Philosophy and Associated Methodologies

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231537216

0231537212

OCLC:

874969546