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Non-Ideal Theorizing, Social Groups, and Knowledge of Oppression: A Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Lisa H. Schwartzman
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Abstract

In responding to Anderson, Tobin, and Mills, I focus on questions about non-ideal theory, normative individualism, and standpoint theory. In particular, I ask whether feminist theorizing can be “liberal” and yet not embody the problematic forms of abstraction and individualism described in Challenging Liberalism. Ultimately, I call for methods of theorizing that illuminate and challenge oppressive social hierarchies.

Type
Symposium on Lisa Schwartzman's Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique
Information
Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 2009 , pp. 177 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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