Feminists Read Habermas
Subtitle: Gendering the Subject of Discourse
By: edited, and with an introduction by Johanna Meehan.
Contributors: Meehan, Johanna.
Series: Thinking Gender
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995-07-08
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780415907149; 9780415907132
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Habermas, Jürgen; Feminist theory; Critical theory
Description: This important new collection considers Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas’s theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity. Feminist scholars have been drawn to his work because it reflects a tradition of emancipatory political thinking rooted in the Enlightenment and engages with the normative aims of emancipatory social movements. The essays in Feminists Read Habermas analyze various aspects of Habermas’s theory, ranging from his moral theory to political issues of identity and participation. While the contributors hold widely different political and philosophical views, they share a conviction of the potential significance of Habermas’s work for feminist reflections on power, norms and subjectivity.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: A note on the text
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
title: What’s Critical About Critical Theory? Nancy Fraser
pagenum: 21; label: 2.
title: Critical Social Theory and Feminist Critiques: The Debate with Jurgen Habermas, Jean L. Cohen
pagenum: 57; label: 3.
title: The Public and the Private Sphere, Joan B. Landes
pagenum: 91; label: 4.
title: Women and the ‘Public Use of Reason’, Marie Fleming
pagenum: 117; label: 5.
title: From Communicative Rationality to Communicative Thinking: A Basis for Feminist Theory and Practice, Jane Braaten
pagenum: 139; label: 6.
title: Feminist Discourse/Practical Discourse, Simone Chambers
pagenum: 163; label: 7.
title: The Debate Over Women and Moral Theory Revisited, Seyla Benhabib
pagenum: 181; label: 8.
title: Discourse in Different Voices, Jodi Dean
pagenum: 205; label: 9.
title: Autonomy, Recognition and Respect: Habermas, Benjamin and Honneth, Johanna Meehan
pagenum: 231; label: 10.
title: Discourse Ethics and Feminist Dilemmas of Difference, Georgia Warnke
pagenum: 247; label: 11.
title: Toward a Model of Self-Identity: Habermas and Kristeva, Allison Weir
pagenum: 263; title: Index
pagenum: 283; title: Contributors
pagenum: 289