Feminist ethics and social and political philosophy: theorizing the non-ideal

Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Idealis 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 bya 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 philosophersas well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, and to an educated popular audience as well. INDICE: Acknowledgments. Introduction.- Section I: Feminist Theorizations of Ethics and Politics, and of the Ideal and Non-Ideal. 1. Normativity, Feminism, and Politics. 2. Ethical Reasons and Political Commitments. 3. Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory. 4. L’Imagination au Pouvoir: Comparing John Rawls’s Method of Ideal Theory with Iris Marion Young’s Method of Critical Theory.- Section II: Critiquing Idealized Characterizations of Personhood. 5. Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation. 6. The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Critique. 7. The Challenge of Care to Idealizing Theories of Distributive Justice. 8. The Ethics of Philosophizing: Ideal Theory and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities.- Section III: Remaking the Moral and Political Subject. 9. The Vulnerable Self: Enabling the Recognition of Racial Inequality. 10. Anger, Virtue and Oppression. 11. Practicing Imperfect Forgiveness. 12. Feminist Political Solidarity.- Section IV: Contextualizing in Actualities. 13. Resisting Organizational Power. 14. Women and Violence: A Theory of Judgment. 15. Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, and Human Rights. 16. Women, Corporate Globalization, and Global Justice. Index. About the Contributors.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6840-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés