Retrieving Experience

by Sonia Kruks

Book Overview

In Retrieving Experience, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484170
• ISBN13: 9780801484179
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher