A question of voice : philosophy and the search for legitimacy / Ron Scapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scapp, Ron, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice (Philosophy).

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Summary:

A Question of Voice: Philosophy and the Search for Legitimacy offers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities. By identifying voice as a significant theme and means by which and through which we might better engage some important philosophical questions, Ron Scapp hopes to expand traditional philosophical discussion and discourse regarding questions about validity, legitimacy, empathy, and solidarity. He offers an innovative perspective that is informed and guided by multiculturalism, ethnic studies, queer studies, feminism, and thinkers and critics such as Bell Hooks, Barbara Christian, Angela Davis, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, among others. A Question of Voice is an American investigation, but also suggests questions that emanate from contemporary continental thought as well as issues that arise from transnational perspectives--an approach that is motived by doing philosophy in an age of multiculturalism.

Contents:

Literary backgrounds

Preliminary philosophical considerations

Legitimacy and voice

Displacements : Plato, voice, and movements to and from the agora

Hear me! Nietzsche, testimony, and the question of audience

Rorty, irony, and voice

Feminism, voice, and the issue of homogeneity

Conclusion: Sotto voce-voice, politics, philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-12728-4

9780472127283