The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity

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Psychology Press, 1998 - Philosophy - 236 pages
In her new book, Christine Battersby rethinks questions of embodiment, essence, sameness and difference, self and "other," patriarchy and power. Using analyses of Kant, Adorno, Irigaray, Butler, Kierkegaard and Deleuze, she challenges those who argue that a feminist metaphysics is a contradiction in terms. The Phenomenal Woman marks out a place for a metaphysics of fluidity in the current debates concerning postmodernism, feminism and identity politics. It will interest philosophers unfamiliar with feminist theory, and open up debates in feminist philosophy to non-philosophers studying women and gender.
 

Contents

Here There Be Monsters
11
Her BodyHer Boundaries
38
Kantian Metaphysics and the Sexed Self
61
Feminist Postmodernism and the Metaphysics
77
Modernity and Selfcertainty
83
Derridean Complications
89
Beyond Deconstruction
96
Antigones of Gender
103
The Young Man
156
Seducer and Seduced
164
Recollecting Forwards
171
Kantian SoundsKantian Sight
178
Metaphysics in Movement
184
Lines of Flight
192
Coda
198
Notes
211

Opening Scenes
109
Philosophy Beyond Dialectics
116
Adorno and Difference
125
Kierkegaard Woman and the Workshop
148
40
222
Index
223
44
229
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Christine Battersby is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Gender and Genius (1990).

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