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The Other Helen Fielding

The Other By Helen Fielding

The Other by Helen Fielding


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Summary

The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society.

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The Other: Feminist Reflections in Ethics by Helen Fielding

The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society.

About Helen Fielding

HELEN FIELDING Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada ANNEMIE HALSEMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands GABRIELLE HILTMANN Lecturer in Philosophy, Basel University, Switzerland RACHEL JONES Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA ANNE RECIHOLD Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg, Germany CHRISTINA SCHUES Assistant Professor, University of Vechta, Germany JENNY SLATMAN Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Tilberg University, the Netherlands CATHRYN VASSELEU University of Technology, Sydney, Australia VERONICA VASTERLING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands GAIL WEISS Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Accounting for the Other - Towards an Ethics of Thinking; Gabrielle Hiltmann PART I: The Other and its Impacts on an Ethical Relation to Oneself The Gift of Recognition: Self and Other in the Multicultural Situi; Annemarie Halsema Relational Identity: An Interpersonal Approach to the Body-Soul-Consciousness Problem; Gabrielle Hiltmann Beyond Narcissism: Women and Civilization; Dorothea Olkowski PART II: The Other in Relational Ethics The Relational Ontologies of Caverero and Battersby: Natality, Time and the Self; Rachel Jones Mothers/Intellectuals: Alterities of a 'Dual' Identity; Gail Weiss PART III: The Ethical Otherness of the Body Embodiment and the Ethical Concept of a Person; Anne Reichold Recognition Beyond Narcissism: Imaging the Body's Ownness and Strangeness; Jenny Slatman Becoming Animated; Cathryn Vasseleu PART IV: Otherness and Ethical Perspective The Contemplative Conditions of a Moral Action; Christina Schues Plural Perspectives and Independence: Political and Moral Judgement in Hannah Arendt; Veronica Vasterling Index

Additional information

NPB9780230506879
9780230506879
0230506879
The Other: Feminist Reflections in Ethics by Helen Fielding
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-04-25
274
N/A
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