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Postmodernism: A Feminist Critique
Author(s) -
Kostikova Anna
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/meta.12008
Subject(s) - postmodernism , epistemology , feminism , meaning (existential) , subject (documents) , sociology , postmodern theatre , identity (music) , feminist philosophy , context (archaeology) , philosophy , aesthetics , gender studies , computer science , paleontology , biology , library science
In this article the author suggests that progress in philosophy can be conceived through contemporary F rench theories that propose a new, polysemantic way of thinking. Postmodern philosophy has tried to renew the meaning of the subject, of the subject's identity, and of language and communication. The author believes that the postmodern, feminist approach to those concepts represents significant progress in philosophy. It is, in fact, exactly in the context of feminism—conceived of not just as a women's sociopolitical or scientific activity but as a broad theoretical approach to many areas—that Western philosophy has acquired its most explicit and adequate meaning. A crucial example here is the new historicophilosophical analysis of the concept of gender . The author appeals to L ipovetsky, L acan, D errida, K risteva, and other thinkers to show how postmodern feminism helps to overcome the binary vision of the contemporary world and the dichotomic composition of earlier philosophical thought.