Editors:
- Provides an up-to-date account of current work in the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy
- Reflects on the significance of the non-idealizing approach, inviting the reader to reconsider traditional idealizing approaches
- Challenges traditional moral and political frameworks by positing a moral/political subject who is affected by systems of oppression
- Addresses issues of gender, race, class, sexuality, nation, and ability as they intersect and in global contexts
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Feminist Theorizations of Ethics and Politics, and of the Ideal and Non-ideal
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Critiquing Idealized Characterizations of Personhood
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Remaking the Moral and Political Subject
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Contextualizing in Actualities
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About this book
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still allowing the essays to be diverse enough to constitute a representation of current work in the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy.
Each of the essays either serves as an instance of work that is rooted in actual, non-ideal conditions, and that, as such, is able to consider any of the many questions relevant to subordinated people; or reflects theoretically on the significance of non-idealizing as an approach to feminist ethics or social and political philosophy.
The volume will be of interest to feminist scholars from all disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This collection is divided in four parts each comprising four chapters plus a useful introduction by Lisa Tessman. … All in all this is a collection worthy of note. It contains a variety of articles, generally well written and accessible that should be useful to all those interested in feminist ethics and politics … .” (Raffaele Rodogno, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 15 (14), April, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Philosophy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, U.S.A.
Lisa Tessman
About the editor
Lisa Tessman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Binghamton University, where she directs the graduate program in Social, Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy (SPEL). Her research, which takes a feminist approach, focuses on ethics with special attention to virtue ethics and eudiamonism, the ethics of liberatory political struggles, the place for normative ideals in non-ideal theorizing, and the concept of a moral dilemma. She has published a collection that she co-edited with Bat-Ami Bar On called _Jewish Locations: Traversing Racialized Landscapes_ (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), a monograph called _Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles_ (Oxford University Press, 2005), and various articles and book chapters. She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on the dilemmatic character of moral life, particularly under conditions of oppression.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal
Editors: Lisa Tessman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6841-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6840-9Published: 19 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9057-5Published: 11 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6841-6Published: 30 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 301
Topics: Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Gender Studies