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Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2016

Pages: 353-378

Reihe: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319277738

Volle Referenz:

Patricia Huntington, "Asymmetrical reciprocity and practical agency", in: Political phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Asymmetrical reciprocity and practical agency

contemporary dilemmas of feminist theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva

Patricia Huntington

pp. 353-378

in: Jung, Lester Embree (eds), Political phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstrakt

This essay presses the need for developing a richer phenomenological description within feminist theory of the process whereby two different persons realize reciprocal recognition. A phenomenological examination of the implicit yet differing ontological assumptions that Benhabib and Young hold, reveals how both the dimensions of symmetry and asymmetry must operate in order to develop the expanded consciousness and affective empathy requisite to recognize another as a three-dimensional moral agent. Implicit in this process, I suggest, is a constructive rather than projective use of imagination. Relying on Kristeva, I sketch a picture of how imagination plays with both dimensions of sameness and difference in communicative interaction. That interplay may catalyze a genuine awakening to the irreducible realities of difference without projecting distorting stereotypes onto other social groups.

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Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2016

Pages: 353-378

Reihe: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319277738

Volle Referenz:

Patricia Huntington, "Asymmetrical reciprocity and practical agency", in: Political phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2016