Hegel and Feminist Philosophy

by Kimberly Hutchings

Book Overview

Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary debates in feminist ethics and political philosophy. As Hutchings demonstrates, this is an ambivalent legacy. Hegel figures both as an antagonistic 'other' and as a significant resource for feminist thinking from de Beauvoir onwards. Hegel's philosophy is antagonistic to feminism in so far as it denigrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745619525
• ISBN13: 9780745619521
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"