Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought Beyond Antigone?

by Hutchings, Kimberly; Pulkkinen, Tuija

• ISBN13: 9780230621459
• ISBN10: 0230621457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book offers a new generation of feminist readings of Hegel from leading scholars in the field.

Author Biography

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Kant, Critique and Politics, International Political Theory, Hegel and Feminist Philosophy, and Time and World Politics. She co-edited Cosmopolitan Citizenship, with Roland Dannreuther, and was a founding editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory.

Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Valtio ja vapaus (The State and Liberty/Freedom), The Postmodern and Political Agency, and the co-editor of Käsitteet liikkeessä. Suomen poliittisten käsitteiden historia (Concepts in Motion: The History of Political Concepts in Finland) and Ashgate Research Companion on the Politics and History of Deomcratization in Europe. She is an editor of the journal Redescriptions.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
About the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Reading Hegel	p. 1
Feminist Encounters with Hegel
Differing Spirits-Reflections on Hegelian Inspiration in Feminist Theory	p. 19
Queering Hegel: Three Incisions	p. 39
Antigone's Liminality: Hegel's Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery	p. 61
Knowing Thyself: Hegel, Feminism and an Ethics of Heteronomy	p. 87
Longing for Recognition	p. 109
Re-Reading Hegel's Method
Beyond Tragedy: Tracing the Aristophanian Subtext of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	p. 133
Reading the Same Twice Over: The Place of the Feminine in the Time of Hegelian Spirit	p. 153
Womanlife or Lifework and Psycho-technique: Woman as the Figure of the Plasticity of Transcendence	p. 177
The Gender of Spirit: Hegel's Moves and Strategies	p. 195
Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism, and the Difference between Women and Men	p. 211
Debating Hegel's Legacy for Contemporary Feminist Politics	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 265
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