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Thinking with the Weight of the Earth: Feminist Contributions to an Epistemology of Concreteness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linda Holler
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Abstract

This essay proposes a possible direction for feminist epistemology—an embodied rationality that defines the process of knowing as a dialogue with particulars or the “things themselves.” On the grounds that modem reality is marked by abstract projects of homo mensura, I argue that the task of postmodernism is to ground cognition in the world by breaking the habit of looking at the world, as if from a distance, and by ceasing to think about the world as if it were composed of a collection of objects-in-general.

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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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