Retrieving Experience - Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics (Paperback, New)

In Subjectivity, Identity, Difference, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist politics, Kruks retrieves and employs aspects of postwar French existential theory -- a tradition that, she argues, postmodernism has obscured by militantly rejecting its own genealogy.

Kruks seeks to refocus our attention on the importance for feminism of embodied and "lived" experiences. Through her original readings of Simone de Beauvoir and other existential thinkers -- including Sartre, Fanon, and Merleau-Ponty -- and her own analyses inspired by their work, Kruks sheds new light on central problems in feminist theory and politics. These include debates about subjectivity and individual agency; questions about recognition and identity politics; and discussion of whether embodied experiences may sometimes facilitate solidarity among groups of different women.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Sonia Kruks
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-8417-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-8014-8417-0
Barcode:	9780801484179

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