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Filozofia feministyczna i autobiografia: wokół myśli Luce Irigaray
Feminist philosophy and autobiography: the case of Luce Irigaray

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopa
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: autobiography; feminist philosophy; situated knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the relations between autobiography and feminist philosophy, taking Luce Irigaray’s thought as an example. Although traditional philosophy usually has been perceived as anti-biographical, as it divides philosophical concepts from its material roots, feminist philosophers and theoreticians exposed materiality of knowledge by stressing the importance of its bodily, sexuated, historical, and cultural situatedness. In this sense autobiography of feminist philosophies is understood as both, public and private, academic and personal, theoretical and practical, ontological and epistemological way of knowledge production.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-36
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish