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Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Hardcover

Series: Re-Reading the Canon

Philosophy

ISBN10: 027102917X
ISBN13: 9780271029177
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 3 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. Does his emphasis on physical subjectivity lend a certain agency to all bodies, regardless of sex? Or do Merleau-Ponty's specific descriptions of physical experience betray an intrinsic bias toward a male heterosexual point of view? The essays presented here by Olkowski and Weiss attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory, while impartially evaluating his contributions, both positive and negative, to that theory.

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