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"Imperfect Discretion": Interventions into the History of Philosophy by Twentieth-Century French Women Philosophers
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2000
- pp. 160-180
- 10.1353/hyp.2000.0020
- Article
- Additional Information
How might we locate originality as emerging from within the "discrete" work of commentary? Because many women have engaged with philosophy in forms (including commentary) that preclude their work from being seen as properly "original," this question is a feminist issue. Via the work of selected contemporary French women philosophers, the author shows how commentary can reconfigure the philosophical tradition in innovative ways, as well as in ways that change what counts as philosophical innovation.