Lexington Books
Pages: 284
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-1368-5 • Hardback • May 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-1369-2 • eBook • May 2016 • $116.50 • (£90.00)
Annemie Halsema is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy of VU-University Amsterdam and board member of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh).
Fernanda Henriques is professor in the Department of Philosophy of University of Évora.
Introduction
Annemie Halsema and Fernanda Henriques
Part I: Ricœur, Women and Gender
Chapter 1. Ricœur, Women, and the Journey to Recognition
Morny Joy
Chapter 2. Speak to Silence and Identify Absence on Campus: Sister Prudence and Paul Ricœur on the Negated Woman Question
Alison Scott-Baumann
Chapter 3. The Metaphor of Gender: Recognition and Dignity
Carlos A. Garduño Comparán
Chapter 4. Transnational Feminist Solidarities and Cosmopolitanism: in Search of a New Concept of the Universal
Damien Tissot
Part II: Ricœur in Dialogue
Chapter 5. “The Accountable Ipse.” The Ethical Self in Ricœur’s Hermeneutics and Butler’s Poststructuralism
Annemie Halsema
Chapter 6. Paul Ricœur and Judith Butler on the Reference and the Renewal of Discourses
Marjolaine Deschênes
Chapter 7. Reshaping Justice: Between Nancy Fraser’s Feminist Philosophy and Paul Ricœur’s Philosophical Anthropology
Gonçalo Marcelo
Chapter 8. Inspiring New Feminist Perspectives: Reading Paul Ricœur with Simone de Beauvoir
Annlaug Bjørsnøs
Chapter 9. Hermeneutics of A Subtlety: Paul Ricœur, Kara Walker, and Intersectional Hermeneutics
Scott Davidson and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Part 3: Ricœur and Feminist Theology
Chapter 10. Ricœur in Dialogue with Feminist Philosophy of Religion. Hermeneutic Hospitality in Contemporary Practice
Pamela Sue Anderson
Chapter 11. Paul Ricœur, Mary Daly, Attestation and the Dis-covery of Feminine Religious Symbols
Stephanie N. Arel
Chapter 12. The Contribution of Ricœur’s Hermeneutics to a Feminist Perspective on Postcolonial Theology
Fernanda Henriques and Teresa Martinho Toldy
List of Contributors
Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy gathers contributions from both world-renowned scholars of Ricoeur's thought and leading feminist thinkers. It is a provocative and ambitious book that both locates in Ricoeur's philosophical project voices not commonly associated with his work and demonstrates their significance. Halsema and Henriques provide Ricoeur scholars and philosophy students in general with a multi-perspective view on how far the conflict of interpretations can go without losing sight of the central tenets of Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics.... [I]t will certainly provide those with a philosophical background with a subtler grasp of topics and arguments the neutrality of which is often, wrongly, taken for granted.
— Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
This book provides an implicit answer to the main dilemma of Feminist theories facing philosophical traditions. These didn’t pay enough attention to discrimination of women and to inequalities; should critical approaches prevail over a close exploration of classic and contemporary texts? How could we re-examine the philosophical canon from gender perspective? In this book, multidisciplinary and multinational, the authors analyze Hermeneutics and, in particular, P. Ricoeurs’s contribution; they explore an alternative version of some practical issues, such as ethical capacities, the quest for recognition, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, and universal principles like justice.
The book brings together updated interpretations of P.Ricoeur’s theory and gender accounts of current and complex questions. It is organized into three sections that draw close hermeneutic Phenomenology to other philosophical voices, from S. de Beauvoir to J. Butler and N. Fraser. It also demonstrates that this dialogue or appropriation was possible and, now, it could continue.
— M.T. López de la Vieja, Universidad de Salamanca