Hypatia articles from June 1999

Hypatia archives from June 1999

Spilling all over the "wide fields of our passions": Frye, Butler, Wittgenstein and the context(s) of attention, intention and identity or: from arm wrestling duck to abject being to lesbian feminist.
June 22, 1999... I argue for a Wittgensteinian reading of Judith Butler's performative conception of identity in light of Marilyn Frye's analysis of lesbian as nonexistent and Butler's analysis of abject. I suggest that the attempt to articulate a performative...

Terrorists, hostages, victims, and "the crisis team": a "who's who" puzzle.
June 22, 1999... This essay examines the relationship between nonviolence and trustworthiness. I focus on questions of accountability for people in midlevel positions of power, where multiple loyalties and responsibilities create conflicts and where policies...

Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy.
June 22, 1999... Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy. By PENELOPE DEUTSCHER. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Penelope Deutscher's book Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy locates...

The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt.
June 22, 1999... The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt. By SEYLA BENHABIB. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1996. Since her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt's reputation has grown enormously. Today she is widely recognized as one of the central...

Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant.
June 22, 1999... Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant. Edited by ROBIN MAY SCHOTT. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1997. Robin Schott's recent anthology, Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (1997), brings together successfully analytic...

Butler's sophisticated constructivism: a critical assessment.
June 22, 1999... This paper aims to investigate whether and in what respects the conceptions of the body and of agency that Judith Butler develops in Bodies That Matter are useful contributions to feminist theory. The discussion focuses on the clarification and...

Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard.
June 22, 1999... Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard. Edited by CELINE LEON and SYLVIA WALSH. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. It is surprising that recent feminist philosophers have paid so little attention to Soren...

Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings.
June 22, 1999... Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings. By SUE CAMPBELL. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Sue Campbell's Interpreting the Personal (1997) is a work of philosophy that responds to both...

Feminism, the Public and the Private.
June 22, 1999... Feminism, the Public and the Private. Edited by JOAN B. LANDES. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Conceptualizations of the public and the private have always been central to the politics of second-wave feminism. The slogan, "the...

Possible and questionable: opening Nietzsche's genealogy to feminine body.
June 22, 1999... According to Kelly Oliver and Elizabeth Grosz, while Friedrich Nietzsche begins to open Western philosophy to the other, the body, he cuts off feminine body. Here I create a framework through which the possibility and questionability of a...

Princess Elisabeth and the problem of mind-body interaction.
June 22, 1999... This paper focuses on Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's philosophical views as exhibited in her early correspondence with Rene Descartes. Elisabeth's criticisms of Descartes's interactionism as well as her solution to the problem of mind-body...

Back to the future: marriage as friendship in the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft.
June 22, 1999... If liberal theory is to move forward, it must take the political nature of family relations seriously. The beginnings of such a liberalism appear in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Wollstonecraft's depiction of the family as a fundamentally...

Her mother her self: the ethics of the Antigone family romance.
June 22, 1999... This essay discusses the implications of Irigaray's readings of the Antigone in the construction of a feminist ethics. By focusing on the gaps and intersections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian phenomenology as formulative of...

Spilling All Over the "Wide Fields of Our Passions": Frye, Butler, Wittgenstein and the Context(s) of Attention, Intention and Identity (Or: From Arm Wrestling Duck to Abject Being to Lesbian Feminist).
June 22, 1999... I. SPILLING ALL OVER NON-EXISTENCE In her well-known 1983 essay "To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality," feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye endorses Sarah Hoagland's contention that lesbians occupy the interesting and peculiar...

Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: A Critical Assessment.
June 22, 1999... During the last decade, a new paradigm has emerged in feminist theory: radical constructivism. Judith Butler's work is most closely linked to the new paradigm. On the basis of a creative appropriation of poststructuralist and psychoanalytical...

Possible and Questionable: Opening Nietzsche's Genealogy to Feminine Body.
June 22, 1999... Among Friedrich Nietzsche scholars, it is fairly common knowledge that the identity of the subject, the concept, and the semantic referent break down in Nietzsche's works.(1) Yet few scholars have focused on Nietzsche's view of the formation of...

Princess Elisabeth and the Problem of Mind-Body Interaction.
June 22, 1999... When philosophers recount the story of their past, they focus primarily on canonical figures. Historians of philosophy have initiated a movement, however, to uncover the work of minor figures in order to fill the gaps in this story and to...

Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft.
June 22, 1999... According to the feminist political theorist Susan Moller Okin, the challenge facing liberal thinkers is to incorporate fully issues of gender and the family into their thinking about justice. She insists that "We can have a liberalism that...

Her Mother Her Self: The Ethics of the Antigone Family Romance.
June 22, 1999... A quelques ajouts ou reductions pres, notre imaginaire fonctionne toujours selon le schema qui se met en place a travers les mythologies et tragedies grecques. Luce Irigaray Despite its chronologic circumstance, Jacques Lacan's reading...

Terrorists, Hostages, Victims, and "The Crisis Team": A "Who's Who" Puzzle.
June 22, 1999... Women and men working to end violence against women do so in a context of racial, ethnic, and class differences and across disability and sexual orientation. As organizers, workers, and friends, many of us continue to reproduce inequalities...

Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By PENELOPE DEUTSCHER. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Penelope Deutscher's book Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy locates a major nerve in contemporary feminist debates and thus has already...

The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By SEYLA BENHABIB. Thousand oaks, California: Sage, 1996. Since her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt's reputation has grown enormously. Today she is widely recognized as one of the central thinkers of our age. The reasons for her growing...

Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by ROBIN MAY SCHOTT. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1997. Robin Schott's recent anthology, Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (1997), brings together successfully analytic and continental feminist appropriations...

Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by CELINE LEON and SYLVIA WALSH. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. It is surprising that recent feminist philosophers have paid so little attention to Soren Kierkegaard's sustained engagement with the...

Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By SUE CAMPBELL. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Sue Campbell's Interpreting the Personal (1997) is a work of philosophy that responds to both mainstream male and feminist philosophers. The larger portion of the text...

Feminism, the Public and the Private.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by JOAN B. LANDES. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Conceptualizations of the public and the private have always been central to the politics of second-wave feminism. The slogan, "the personal is political," implied that...