Though many pioneering feminists were deeply influenced by American pragmatism, their contemporary followers have generally ignored that tradition because of its marginalization by a philosophical mainstream intent on neutral analyses devoid of subjectivity. In this revealing work, Charlene Haddock Seigfried effectively reunites two major social and philosophical movements, arguing that pragmatism, because of its focus on the emancipatory potential of everyday experiences, offers feminism its most viable and powerful philosophical foundation. With careful attention to their interwoven histories and contemporary concerns, Pragmatism and Feminism effectively invigorates both traditions, opening them to new interpretations and appropriations and asserting their timely philosophical relevance. This foundational work in feminist theory simultaneously invites and guides future scholarship in an area of rapidly emerging significance.

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric

Politics & Social Sciences

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

Though many pioneering feminists were deeply influenced by American pragmatism, their contemporary followers have generally ignored that tradition because of its marginalization by a philosophical mainstream intent on neutral analyses devoid of subjectivity. In this revealing work, Charlene Haddock Seigfried effectively reunites two major social and philosophical movements, arguing that pragmatism, because of its focus on the emancipatory potential of everyday experiences, offers feminism its most viable and powerful philosophical foundation. With careful attention to their interwoven histories and contemporary concerns, Pragmatism and Feminism effectively invigorates both traditions, opening them to new interpretations and appropriations and asserting their timely philosophical relevance. This foundational work in feminist theory simultaneously invites and guides future scholarship in an area of rapidly emerging significance.

William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy

Book by Seigfried, Charlene Haddock

State University of New York Press

Review\n“This is the most intelligent and authoritative study of James’s works I know. Seigfried’s treatment is complete, objective, subtle. Anyone seriously interested in James studies will have to reckon with Seigfried’s assessment.” ― Nancy Frankenberry\n“I like the way Seigfried combines a comprehensive scope with a detailed and nuanced understanding of specific texts and particular positions. Also I like the way she shows how James’s reconstruction of philosophy makes his project directly relevant to the deepest concerns of contemporary life and the focal questions of contemporary philosophy. I think she has written a very interesting work which is full of unexpected and surprising turns and interpretations.” ― Vincent Colapietro\n“I find the book to shed new light on the source of the ambiguities and inconsistencies in James’s writings, setting into relief his continual and fruitless struggle for consistency. In the process, it also clarifies recurrent themes and persistent tendencies in James’s work and illumines the relations between its different parts: his psychology, his pragmatism, and his philosophy of ‘pure experience.’ I also like the way the author tries to utilize what she shows to be James’s own method in interpreting him.\n“In addition to providing information about some of James’s unpublished writings, for me the book provided new insights into the implications of specific texts and also into the continuity, from one period and one topic to another, of James’s preoccupations and methodological strategies. Reading it, I felt I was ‘getting inside’ James’s writings in a way I never had before. She teases out dominant motifs and shows their implications for his own position in ways he was incapable of doing. Without claiming to have the last word (which would be unJamesian), she is very persuasive.” ― Beth J. Singer

State Univ of New York Pr

Chaos and Context: A Study in William James

Ohio University Press

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Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric

William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy

William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy

Chaos and Context: A Study in William James