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Time in Feminist Phenomenology
The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.

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Time in Feminist Phenomenology
The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.

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Time in Feminist Phenomenology

Time in Feminist Phenomenology

Overview

The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253223142
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 06/03/2011
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Christina Schües teaches philosophy at the University of Lübeck.

Dorothea E. Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Helen A. Fielding teaches philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Time / Christina Schües
2. Prologue: The Origin of Time, the Origin of Philosophy / Dorothea Olkowski
Part 1. Methodological Considerations and the Body
3. Personality, Anonymity, and Sexual Difference: The Temporal Formation of the Transcendental Ego / Sara Heinämaa
4. The Power of Time: Temporal Experiences and A-temporal Thinking? / Christina Schües
5. Gender and Anonymous Temporality / Silvia Stoller
6. Gendering Embodied Memory / Linda Fisher
7. The Time of the Self: A Feminist Reflection on Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity / Annemie Halsema
Part 2. Ethical and Political Perspectives on Time
8. Contingency, Newness, and Freedom: Arendt's Recovery of the Temporal Condition of Politics / Veronica Vasterling
9. Questioning "Homeland" through Yael Bartana's Wild Seeds / Helen A. Fielding
10. Sharing Time across Unshared Horizons / Gail Weiss
List of Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

McGill University - Alia Al-Saji

By bringing phenomenological and feminist perspectives to bear, this collection of essays brings together two fields that have not been sufficiently articulated together.

Ellen Federn University

Reckons with temporality and gendering in a careful and original way.

American University - Ellen Feder

Reckons with temporality and gendering in a careful and original way.

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