Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Book Overview

The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home to their ordinary uses, recognizing that it is our agreements in judgments and forms of life that ground intelligibility; and feminist theory, whose task is to articulate a radical critique of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021985
• ISBN13: 9780271021980
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"