Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus
of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question"
for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays
included in this volume show that it is possible to read past
Gadamer's silences about women and other Others to find rich
resources for feminist theory and practice in his views of science,
language, history, knowledge, medicine, and literature. While the
essayists find much of value in Gadamer's work, he emerges from
their discussion as a controversial figure. Some contributors see
him as promoting genuine respect for and engagement with Otherness:
others claim that in a Gadamerian conversation the Other has no
voice. For some, Gadamer's immersion in tradition is an impediment
to feminist inquiry; for others, cognizant of the need to
understand tradition well in order to contest its intransigence or
benefit from its insights, his way of engaging tradition is
especially productive. Some contributors take issue with the
separation he maintains between philosophy and politics; others
find problems in his relative silence on matters of embodiment;
still others maintain that a "fusion of horizons" amounts to a
colonizing of difference. But a common aim of each of these
controversies is to discern what feminists can learn from Gadamer
as well as what limitations feminist reinterpretations of his work
must inevitably encounter.
Contributors are Linda Martin Alcoff, William Cowling, Gemma
Corradi Fiumara, Marie Fleming, Silja Freudenberger, Susan Hekman,
Susan-Judith Hoffmann, Grace M. Jantzen, Patricia Altenbernd
Johnson, Laura Kaplan, Robin Pappas, Robin May Schott, Meili
Steele, Veronica Vasterling, Georgia Warnke, and Kathleen Roberts
Wright.
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