Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self [electronic resource] : Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction /
Meredith, Fionola.author.
This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the insight that mediated subjectivity need not mean alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical model of the experiential based on the interpenetration of poststructuralist thinking and hermeneutic phenomenology. Since poststructuralist approaches in feminist theory have often placed women's lived experiences 'under erasure', Meredith uses this hermeneutic/deconstructive model to attempt a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' female existent.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Difference Unleashed; 1 Difference and Undecidability: Post-Saussurean Thought; 2 Woman as Text: The Influence of Post-structuralism on Feminist Theory; 3 The Post-structuralist Erasure of Experience; 4 Frameworks for Experience; 5 'It's me here': Writing the Singular Self, Writing the Postdeconstructive Female Self; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the insight that mediated subjectivity need not mean alienated selfhood, Meredith forwards a postmetaphysical model of the experiential based on the interpenetration of poststructuralist thinking and hermeneutic phenomenology. Since poststructuralist approaches in feminist theory have often placed women's lived experiences 'under erasure', Meredith uses this hermeneutic/deconstructive model to attempt a rehabilitation of the singular 'flesh and blood' female existent.
Feminist theory.
Movement (Philosophy).
Metaphysics.
Philosophy of mind.
Hermeneutics.
Feminism.
Philosophical Traditions.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy of Mind.
Hermeneutics.