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Shifting Ground - Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness (Hardcover, New)
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Shifting Ground - Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on
epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical
reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and
theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of
epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially
foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for
others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously
segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case
for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally
altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think
that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as
truth, reality, and objectivity, she maintains (as in the title of
one of her essays) that epistemology needs to be "resuscitated" as
an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its
heart.
While each essay contributes to a specific conversation, taken
together they argue for addressing theoretical questions as they
arise concretely. Truth, reality, objectivity, and other concepts
that problematically rest on shifting ground are more than
philosophical toys, and the ground-shifting these essays enact is a
move away from abstruse theorizing-analytic and post-structuralist
alike. Following Wittgenstein's injunctions to just look, to attend
to the "rough ground" of everyday practices, Scheman argues for
finding philosophical insight in such acts of attention and in the
difficulties that beset them. These essays are an attempt to grasp
something in particular, to get a handle on a set of problems, and
collectively they represent a fresh model of passionate
philosophical engagement.
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