Hypatia articles from September 2004

Hypatia archives from September 2004

No more like Pallas Athena: displacing patrilineal accounts of modern feminist political theory.
September 22, 2004... With the resurgence of reinvigorated feminist ideas in the late 1960s, the history of western political and philosophical thought came to be subjected to intense scrutiny. Of particular concern were issues such as masculinist biases...

Lupita's dress: care in time.
September 22, 2004... The notion of care expands from the paralyzing injunction not to hurt others to an injunction to act responsively toward self and others and to sustain connection. A consciousness of the dynamics of human relationships then becomes central...

Particularity and perspective taking: on feminism and Habermas's discourse theory of morality.
September 22, 2004... With the introduction of Carol Gilligan's concept of a different moral voice, conventional, principle-based models of impartial moral judgment were placed on notice. Moral philosophers inspired by Gilligan's insight argued that the inherited...

Conversing on love: text and subtext in Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della Infinita d'Amore.
September 22, 2004... Tullia d'Aragona (ca. 1510-1556), the once-famous Roman writer and courtesan of the Italian Renaissance, has not yet received much attention in modern philosophic discourse. While research on d'Aragona's life and work has become an integral...

Anarchic bodies: Foucault and the feminist question of experience.
September 22, 2004... 1. THE RETRIEVAL OF EXPERIENCE The aim of discussing the centrality of experience in feminist theory is very likely to produce a feeling that we are again going over a much-trodden terrain that has become barren in the process. The...

Women's agency in a context of oppression: assessing strategies for personal action and public policy.
September 22, 2004... In the aftermath of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the public safety workers--firefighters, police, paramedics, and other rescue personnel--who responded to the sites were lionized by public leaders and the media....

Mourning and metonymy: bearing witness Between Women and Generations.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... We must think back through our mothers. --Virginia Woolf Il s'agit de lui redonner la vie, a cette mere la, a notre mere en nous, et entre nous. --Luce Irigaray ... as if the invisible death which the face of the other faces were...

Irigaray and the sacrifice of the sacrifice of woman.
September 22, 2004... Irigaray states that "most of our societies have been built on sacrifice" (FSA 89/WSM 75). Numerous instances of social space existing only through immolation are offered by the work of Girard, notably Violence and the Sacred (1972) and Things...

Claudia Card's atrocity paradigm.(SYMPOSIUM)
September 22, 2004... With the publication of Claudia Card's book, The Atrocity Paradigm, the field of philosophy now has the important moral duty of rethinking and discussing the concept of evil in relation to contemporary problems. Card's book--the first to deal...

Politics and prioritization of evil.
September 22, 2004... In her recent book, The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (2002), Claudia Card offers what she takes to be a particular "conception" rather than a general "concept" (5) (1) of evil that centers on atrocities as the key to an understanding of...

Inequity/iniquity: card on balancing injustice and evil.
September 22, 2004... In Chapter Five of her rich and challenging Atrocity Paradigm, Claudia Card argues that we too often direct our moral and social energies to combating small or middle-sized injustices, when they could be directed at real evils, but evils that...

The atrocity paradigm and the concept of forgiveness.
September 22, 2004... Speaking at this panel on Claudia Card's new book, The Atrocity Paradigm (Card 2002), has great personal significance. Card has had a decisive impact on my own work since I met her in 1995 in Vienna at the meeting of the International...

The atrocity paradigm revisited.
September 22, 2004... An international panel reflecting on evil is especially appropriate during these internationally troubled times. The four commentators on my book The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Card 2002) are all conversant with literatures on evil in...

The Ends of Arendtian Politics: A Review of Hannah Arendt.(Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity)(Our Sense of the Real: Aesthetic Experience and Arendtian Politics )(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Ends of Arendtian Politics: A Review of Hannah Arendt by JULIA KRISTEVA, trans. Ross Guberman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity by NORMA CLAIRE MORUZZI...

The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy. Edited by MIRANDA FRICKER and JENNIFER HORNSBY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Seeing the word companion in a title, a reader may imagine an expensive seven-hundred page...

Philosophical sisters, incite!(MUSINGS)
September 22, 2004... We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have, to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days, and to act upon them with courage and with compassion, as we make our plans to live in a...

Notes on contributors.
September 22, 2004... BAT-AMI BAR ON teaches Philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her primary theoretical and activist interests are in violence and trauma. She is the author of the The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (Rowman and...

Guidelines for contributors.
September 22, 2004... Hypatia solicits papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. Please submit your paper, saved in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect format, via e-mail attachment to: hypatia@msu.edu. Articles may vary in length, though long articles will...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2004... Agich, George J. 2003. Dependence and autonomy in old age: An ethical framework for long-term care. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Aldama, Arturo J., ed. 2003. Violence and the body: Race, gender, and the state. Bloomington:...