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The Material of Knowledge Feminist Disclosures (Paperback)
| Author: Susan Hekman |
| Format: | Paperback |
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Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing an intellectual sea change. Themain features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a moreintimate connection between these pairs, one that does not privilege one over theother. By grounding her work in feminist thought and employing analytic philosophy, scientific theory, and linguistic theory, Hekman shows how language and reality canbe understood as an indissoluble unit. In this broadly synthetic work, she offers anew interpretation of questions of science, modernism, postmodernism, and feminismso as to build knowledge of reality and extend how we deal with nature and ourincreasingly diverse experiences of it. |
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Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing a sea change in intellectual thought. The main features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a more intimate connection between these pairs, one that does not privilege one over the other. By grounding her work in feminist thought and employing analytic philosophy, scientific theory, and linguistic theory, Hekman shows how language and reality can be understood as a dissoluble unit. In this broadly synthetic work, she offers a new interpretation of questions of science, modernism, postmodernism, and feminist thought that build knowledge of reality and extend how we deal with nature and our increasingly diverse experiences of it. |
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