Showing papers by "Alison M. Jaggar published in 1989"
TL;DR: The authors argued that the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, and pointed out how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated with emotion.
Abstract: This paper argues that, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge. The paper begins with an account of emotion that stresses its active, voluntary, and socially constructed aspects, and indicates how emotion is involved in evaluation and observation. It then moves on to show how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated culturally with emotion. Finally, the paper sketches some ways in which the emotions of underclass groups, especially women, may contribute to the development of a critical social theory.
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01 Jun 1989
TL;DR: The essays in this paper share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased, and they challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural,'the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.
Abstract: The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.
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