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Book SynopsisImages of and references to women are so rare in the corpus of his published work that there seems to be no woman question for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of these 15 essays show it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences to find rich resources for feminist theory and practice.
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Nancy Tuana
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Feminists Do Not Read Gadamer
Lorraine Code
Part I: Hermeneutic Projects, Feminist Interventions
Engendering Gadamerian Conversations
1. (En)gendering Dialogue Between Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and Feminist Thought
Kathleen Roberts Wright
2. Hermeneutics and Constructed Identities
Georgia Warnke
3. Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics and Feminist Projects
Susan-Judith Hoffmann
4. Gadamer’s Conversation: Does the Other Have A Say?
Marie Fleming
5. The Development of Hermeneutic Prospects
Gemma Corradi Fiumara
6. Postmodern Hermeneutics? Toward a Critical Hermeneutics
Veronica Vasterling
7. The Ontology of Change: Gadamer and Feminism
Susan Hekman
8. Toward a Critical Hermeneutics
Robin Pappas and William Cowling
Part II: Feminist Issues: Enlisting Gadamerian Resources
9. Gadamer’s Feminist Epistemology
Linda Martín Alcoff
10. The Hermeneutic Conversation as Epistemological Model
Silja Freudenberger
11. The Horizon of Natality: Gadamer, Heidegger, and the Limits of Existence
Grace M. Jantzen
12. Questioning Authority
Patricia Altenbernd Johnson
13. Gender, Nazism, and Hermeneutics
Robin May Schott
14. Three Problematics of Linguistic Vulnerability
Meili Steele
15. Three Applications of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: Philosophy-Faith-Feminism
Laura Kaplan
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
