Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on Gendered Locations

by Lorraine Code

Overview

The arguments in this book are informed at once by the moral-political implications of how knowledge is produced and circulated and by issues of gendered subjectivity. In their critical dimension, these lucid essays engage with the incapacity of the philosophical mainstream's dominant epistemologies to offer regulative principles that guide people in the epistemic projects that figure centrally in their lives. In its constructive dimension, Rhetorical Spaces focuses on developing productive, case-by-case analyses of knowing other people in situations where social-political inequalities create asymmetrical patterns of epistemic power and privilege.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415909365
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/1995
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lorraine Code is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at York University in Toronto.

Table of Contents

1. Responsibility and Rhetoric; 2. Taking Subjectivity into Account; 3. Incredulity, Experientialism, and the Politics of Knowledge; 4. Persons, and Others; 5. Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology; 6. I know Just How You Feel: Empathy and the Problem of Epistemic Authority; 7. Gossip, or In Praise of Chaos; 8. Voice and Voicelessness: A Modest Proposal?; 9. Must a Feminist Be a Relativist After All?; 10. Critiques of Pure Reason.

Editorial Reviews

"...her work has a subversive potential to pose unasked questions about rhetorically mediated contexts of legitimacy, the social construction of the grounds for "good reasons" and naturalized, taken-for-granted rhetorical spaces that delegitimite or sanction what may count as the force of the better argument." — Quarterly Journal of Speech

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