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Why We Listen to Lunatics: Antifoundational Theories and Feminist Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Susan Bickford
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Abstract

In this essay, I argue that Richard Rorty's version of pragmatism focuses too much on community, and gives insufficient attention to the workings of power and the necessary relation between theory and practice. I then turn briefly to the work of Michel Foucault for a better understanding of power relations. Finally, I argue for the value of learning from a group of writers who connect theory and practice in a way that attends to both community and power relations.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism , Spring 1993 , pp. 104 - 123
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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