Refiguring the Ordinary - Hardcover

Gail Weiss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025335157X ISBN 13: 9780253351579

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2008

Synopsis

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodily normality. While no two people will experience the ordinary in exactly the same way, the multiplicities, possibilities, overlaps, and limitations of day-to-day horizons are always intersubjectively constituted. Weiss turns her attention to changing the conditions and experiences of oppression from ordinary to extraordinary. This book is an impressive phenomenological, feminist reading of the complexities of human experience.M. V. Marder, University of Toronto, Feb. 2009

(M. V. Marder, University of Toronto 2009-01-00)

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From the Publisher

"Articulate, readable, well-researched, and original . . . one of the best feminist readings and elaborations of phenomenological philosophy thus far published." --Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University

"[Readers] interested in phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and issues of embodiment in general, as well as feminist philosophy, would be interested in this book. It is written clearly and free of jargon." --Thomas Busch, Villanova University

About the Author

Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Sciences graduate program at The George Washington University. She is author of Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 025335157X
• ISBN 13: 9780253351579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264