The Epistemology of Resistance - Gender Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, Resistant

Zusatztext The social epistemology developed in recent decades represents a welcome advance on the dead-end of Cartesian individualism. But the social has too often been conceived of without centering social oppression, and all the noetic complexities that come with it. In this richly detailed and wide-ranging text, Jose Medina locates the epistemological project squarely where it belongs: in societies of privilege, subordination, and radical group differentiation. Drawing on feminism, critical race theory, and queer theory, he shows with unprecedented thoroughness that we need to develop the cognitive virtues necessary to overcome active ignorance, epistemic injustice, and structural group insensitivity in sum, the problems not of a conveniently sanitized epistemic 'Twin-Earth' but the disordered world in which we all actually live. Informationen zum Autor José Medina is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works primarily in Gender & Race Theory, Philosophy of Language, and Social Epistemology. His writings on language and identity have focused on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Medina's books include Speaking from Elsewhere (SUNY Press, 2006) and Language (Continuum, 2005). Klappentext This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other. Zusammenfassung This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Product details

• Authors: Medina, Jose Medina, José Medina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9780199929023
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992902-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy; Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Ethnic Studies, Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity