Refiguring the Ordinary - Softcover

WEISS, GAIL

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253219892 ISBN 13: 9780253219893

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2008

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Páginas:266Géneros:12:JF:Society&culture:general12:JFSJ:Genderstudies,gendergroups12:JFFK:Feminism&feministtheory12:HPCF3:Phenomenology&ExistentialismSinopsis:Ifsocial,political,andmaterialtransformationistohavealastingimpactonindividualsandsociety,itmustbeintegratedwithinordinaryexperience.RefiguringtheOrdinaryexaminesthewaysinwhichindividualsbodies,habits,environments,andabilitiesfunctionashorizonsthatunderpintheirunderstandingsoftheordinary.Thesefeaturesofexperience,accordingtoGailWeiss,areneverneutral,butarealwaysaffectedbygender,race,socialclass,ethnicity,nationality,andperceptionsofbodilynormality.Whilenotwopeoplewillexperiencetheordinaryinexactlythesameway,themultiplicities,possibilities,overlaps,andlimitationsofday-to-dayhorizonsarealwaysintersubjectivelyconstituted.Weissturnsherattentiontochangingtheconditionsandexperiencesofoppressionfromordinarytoextraordinary.Thisbookisanimpressivephenomenological,feministreadingofthecomplexitiesofhumanexperience.M.V.Marder,UniversityofToronto,Feb.2009_,

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While a philosophy book that will surely end up in university courses, Weiss's pronouncements about the self, the other, and how we construct reality will no doubt contribute to feminist philosophical theory in a greater way. When taken with healthy doses of history as a foundation to understanding her work, Weiss's explanation and subsequent reshaping of the ordinary becomes quite digestible and even a bit delicious. . . . [R]ecommended for any combination of curious philosopher, cross-disciplinary psychologist, radical feminist, and communication theorist among us.November 6, 2008 -- Brittany Shoot * Feminist Review * Weiss (George Washington Univ.) insightfully bridges phenomenology and critical theory in a way that leads to a mutual enrichment of the two fields. Her study renders hallmark phenomenological terms, such as "horizon" and "world," more concrete by insisting on the need to supplement their spatial and temporal aspects with the social and political determinations of the most ordinary human behavior, including perception and habituation. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.February 2009 * Choice *

Reseña del editor:

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodily normality. While no two people will experience the ordinary in exactly the same way, the multiplicities, possibilities, overlaps, and limitations of day-to-day horizons are always intersubjectively constituted. Weiss turns her attention to changing the conditions and experiences of oppression from ordinary to extraordinary. This book is an impressive phenomenological, feminist reading of the complexities of human experience.M. V. Marder, University of Toronto, Feb. 2009

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0253219892
• ISBN 13: 9780253219893
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266