Hegel and feminist social criticism : justice, recognition, and the feminine

Author(s)

• Gauthier, Jeffrey A.

Bibliographic Information

Hegel and feminist social criticism : justice, recognition, and the feminine

Jeffrey A. Gauthier

（SUNY series in social and political thought）

State University of New York Press, c1997

• : alk. paper
• : pbk : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book draws mutually enlightening parallels between controversial themes in contemporary feminist thought and Hegel's political philosophy. Jeffrey A. Gauthier argues that feminism can gainfully employ Hegel's historicizing of Kant's ethics of universality, as well as his socializing of Kant's conception of autonomy, in defense of a number of controversial feminist claims. Hegel and Feminist Social Criticism brings the Hegelian texts into a critical dialogue with the work of a number of important contemporary feminist theorists, including Annette Baier, Cheshire Calhoun, Drucilla Cornell, Marilyn Friedman, Marilyn Frye, Sandra Harding, Luce Irigaray, Alison Jaggar, Helen Longino, and Catharine MacKinnon. In a series of discussions taking up issues such as consciousness-raising, standpoint theory, sexist agency, critiques of universalism, the emotions, systematic violence against women, and "difference" theory, the book offers a sustained argument not only for the importance of Hegel for feminist thought but for the significance of feminism in clarifying and developing certain key Hegelian ideas as well.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Citations Introduction Part One: EMERGENT AGENCY AND NORMATIVITY IN HEGEL 1. Historically Emergent Agency: Antigone and Creon 2. Hegel's Critique of "Emptiness:" Politicizing the Moral Point of View 3. Hegel's Phenomenology and Impartial Justification: Toward a Historical Realism in Ethics Part Two: FEMINIST JUSTICE AND HISTORICAL REALISM 4. Consciousness-Raising and Political Critique: Reconceptualizing Universality 5. Ignorance, Oppression, and Blame: Political Critique and Individual Reproach 6. Feminist Ethics and Critiques of Rationality Part Three: AGENCY, VICTIMIZATION, AND DIFFERENCE 7. Slaves without Fear: Hegel and the Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir 8. Justice, Recognition, and the Feminine Epilogue Notes References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA33635486
• ISBN:
  • 0791433633
  • 0791433641
• LCCN: 97001961
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 233 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1190
  • DC21 : 305.42/01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Feminist theory -- Evaluation
  • LCSH : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Contributions in feminist criticism
  • LCSH : Feminist criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20027998