Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom - Linda M. G. Zerilli

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Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom

By: Linda M. G. Zerilli

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Paperback | 3 October 2005 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism. In Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, Linda M. G. Zerilli argues that the persistence of this subject-centered frame severely limits feminists' capacity to think imaginatively about the central problem of feminist theory and practice: a politics concerned with freedom.

Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, Zerilli here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an analytic category of feminism, to one rooted in political action and judgment. She revisits the democratic problem of exclusion from participation in common affairs and elaborates a freedom-centered feminism as the political practice of beginning anew, world-building, and judging.

In a series of case studies, Zerilli draws on the political thought of Hannah Arendt to articulate a nonsovereign conception of political freedom and to explore a variety of feminist understandings of freedom in the twentieth century, including ones proposed by Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. In so doing, Zerilli hopes to retrieve what Arendt called feminism's lost treasure: the original and radical claim to political freedom.

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"This is an exciting and exhilarating book, clearly destined to have a lasting influence in feminist theory. Here, Zerilli makes a serious effort to go beyond the terrain of identity politics and its critics. The emphasis is put, on the contrary, on political judgment as the basis for forming political communities and on practices of freedom." - Ernesto Laclau, University of Essex"

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Why Feminism and Freedom Both Begin with the Letter F	p. 1
Freedom as a Social Question
Freedom as a Subject Question
Freedom as a World Question
Feminism's "Lost Treasure"
Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology	p. 33
Theory-The Craving for Generality?
A Wittgensteinian Reading of the Feminist Foundations Debate
Doing Gender, Following a Rule
Radical Imagination and Figures of the Newly Thinkable
Toward a Freedom-Centered Feminist Theory
Feminists Are Beginners: Monique Wittig's Les guerilleres and the "Problem of the New"	p. 67
The Limits of Doubt
Language as a "War Machine"
Renversement
No-More and Not-Yet
Elles-A Fantastic Universal
Feminists Make Promises: The Milan Collective's Sexual Difference and the Project of World-Building	p. 93
Tearing Up the Social Contract
The Desire for Reparation
The Problem with Equality
Discovering Disparity
A Political Practice of Sexual Difference
Refiguring Rights
Feminists Make Judgments: Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and the Affirmation of Freedom	p. 125
Judgment and the "Problem of the New"
The Old Problem of Objectivity
Judging without a Concept
One Concept of Validity
A Political Concept of Validity
From World-Disclosure ot World-Opening
"Being and thinking in my own identity where actually I am not"
Imagination and Freedom
Sensus Communis and the Practice of Freedom
Conclusion: Reframing the Freedom Question in Feminism	p. 165
Feminism's Paradox of Founding
What a Political Claim Is
Feminism Is a World-Building Practice
Recovering Feminism's "Lost Treasure"
Notes	p. 183
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