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(Love Is) The Ability of Not Knowing: Feminist Experience of the Impossible in Ethical Singularity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Dawn Rae Davis
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Abstract

In neocolonial contexts of globalization, the epistemological terrain of radical diversity poses significant ethical challenges to transnational feminisms. In view of historical associations between knowledge and discourses of love which were conditioned by imperialist brands of humanism and benevolence under colonialism, this paper argues for a deconstructionist approach to conceptualizing love in relation to knowledge and for an ethics that severs the association with benevolence, instead making alterity the basis for its account.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002 , pp. 145 - 161
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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