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Feminism and Hermeneutics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Georgia Warnke
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Abstract

Feminists often look to postmodern philosophy for a framework within which to treat difference. We might more productively look to a hermeneutic philosophy that emphasizes the interpretive dimensions of difference and allows us to acknowledge the partiality of our understanding. Hence, we might also recognize the importance of a hermeneutic conversation unconstrained by relations of power or ideology in which all nonexclusionary interpretive voices can be educated by one another.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993, pp. 81 - 98
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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