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The Dangers of "Pure Feeling": A Warning to Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Title The Dangers of "Pure Feeling": A Warning to Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer
 
Creator Murphy, Sinéad
 
Subject Philosophy
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutics, Feelings, Transcendentalism, Aesthetic Judgement, History, Feminist Critique
 
Description By analyzing the feminist debates on Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author shows that feminist critics point to the need either to supplement or to replace Gadamer's philosophy with a greater sensitivity to the historical implications of women's experience. Thus, they are of the view either that Gadamer's philosophy has yet to come to terms with specific historical situations or that Gadamer's philosophy cannot come to terms with historical situatedness per se. The author contends that Gadamer's femi-nist critics do not locate the source of his residual transcendentalism where it should be located: in the account of aesthetic judgment as a "pure feeling" that underpins his entire philosophy. This has the effect, of appearing to preserve aesthetic judgment as "pure feeling" as an apparently innocent remedy, to which some of his feminist critics actually appeal in opposition to his transcendentalism. The author argues, to the contrary, that aesthetic judgment, as a "pure feeling," is at once too com-plicit in the tradition that feminists seek to engage with, traditionally too insubstantial to make a rich resource for a feminist critique of that tradition, and ultimately too traditionally male-centered to be easily coopted by a feminist philosopher.
 
Publisher Axia Academic Publishers
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-08-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Philosophic-Historical Approach, Feminist Critique
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/32
10.25180/lj.v16i1.32
 
Source Labyrinth; Vol 16, No 1 (2014): Philosophy as Hermeneutics and Commitment; 92-108
1561-8927
2410-4817
10.25180/lj.v16i1
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/32/35
 
Coverage German Philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of the 20. and 21. Century
Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Sinéad Murphy
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0