Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel KantPenn State Press, 1997 - 423 sider This volume presents radically divergent interpretations of Kant from feminist perspectives. Some essays see Kant as having contributed significantly to theories of rationality and autonomy in ways that can further feminist projects. Other essays argue that Kant is a preeminent exponent of patriarchal views and that gender hierarchies are inscribed in the very structure of his theories of morality and aesthetic judgment. But both sympathizers and critics challenge the accepted topography of Kantian philosophy by which central philosophical concerns are defined as those that are abstract, universal, and transcendental. Instead, these feminist writers resituate Kantian questions in the politics of everyday life and emphasize the embodied nature of knowledge, morality and aesthetics. They analyze dilemmas that face concentrate subjects, involving issues of friendship, collective responsibility, xenophobia, and colonialism, among others. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Xenophobia and Kantian Rationalism¹ | 21 |
Can Kants Ethics Survive the Feminist Critique?¹ | 77 |
Feminist Ethics How It Could Benefit from Kants Moral Philosophy | 101 |
ReVisions of Agency in Kants Moral Theory¹ | 125 |
Kantian Ethics and Claims of Detachment | 145 |
The Aesthetic Dimension of Kantian Autonomy | 173 |
The Concepts of the Sublime and the Beautiful in Kant and Lyotard | 191 |
Kants Patriarchal Order | 275 |
How Can Individualists Share Responsibility? | 297 |
The Gender of Enlightenment | 319 |
Kant the Law and Desire | 341 |
The Economy of Respect Kant and Respect for Women | 355 |
Rethinking Kant from the Perspective of Ecofeminism | 373 |
Select Bibliography | 401 |
Contributors | 409 |
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