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Jennifer McWeeny
Auteur de Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions
Œuvres de Jennifer McWeeny
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- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Colorado College (BA-Philosophy) (BA-Biology)
University of Hawaii (MA)
University of Oregon (MA, PhD) - Professions
- Philosophy Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Simone de Beauvoir Studies - Prix et distinctions
- Fulbright Research Scholar, 2019-20
- Courte biographie
- Jennifer McWeeny is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research and teaching interests concern feminist philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, comparative methodology, decolonial theory, environmental philosophy, and Buddhism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and her M.A. from the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 7
- Popularité
- #1,123,407
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.… (plus d'informations)