José Medina

The Epistemology of Resistance

Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199929047
• ISBN-10: 0199929041
• Artikelnr.: 35941647

Autorenporträt

José Medina is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works primarily in Gender & Race Theory, Philosophy of Language, and Social Epistemology. His writings on language and identity have focused on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Medina's books include Speaking from Elsewhere (SUNY Press, 2006) and Language (Continuum, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Foreword: Insensitivity and Blindness
* Introduction. Resistance, Democratic Sensibilities, and the
Cultivation of Perplexity
* A. The Importance of Dissent and the Imperative of Epistemic
Interaction
* B. Resistance, Perplexity, and Multiperspectivalism
* C. Overview
* Chapter 1. Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction
* 1.1. Active Ignorance and the Epistemic Vices of the Privileged
* 1.2. Lucidity and the Epistemic Virtues of the Oppressed
* 1.3. Resistance, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Regulative
Principles of Epistemic Friction
* Chapter 2. Resistance as Epistemic Vice and as Epistemic Virtue
* 2.1. The Excess of Epistemic Authority and the Resulting
Insensitivity
* 2.1.1. Epistemic Justice as Interactive, Comparative and Contrastive
* 2.1.2. Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the Social
Imaginary
* 2.2. The Vice of Avoiding Epistemic Friction, Hermeneuticalal
Injustice, and the Problem of Meta-Blindness.
* 2.3. Striving for Open-Mindedness: Epistemic Friction and Epistemic
Counterpoints as Correctives of Meta-Blindness
* Chapter 3. Imposed Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities
* 3.1. Silences and the Communicative Approach to Epistemic Injustice
* 3.2. Communicative Pluralism and Hermeneutical Injustice
* 3.3. Our Hermeneutical Responsibilities with respect to Multiple
Publics
* Chapter 4. Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance
* 4.1. Responsible Agency, Knowledge/Ignorance, and Social Injustice
* 4.2. Betraying One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression:
Social Contextuality, Interconnectedness, and Culpable Ignorance
* 4.2.A. Pig Heads, Burning Crosses, and Car keys
* 4.2.B. The Social Division of Cognitive Laziness
* 4.2.C. Blindness to Differences
* 4.2.D. Blindness to Social Relationality and the Relevance Dilemma
* 4.3. Overlapping Insensitivities, Culture-Blaming, and Gender
Violence against Third-World Women
* Chapter 5. Meta-Lucidity, Epistemic Heroes, and the Everyday Struggle
Toward Epistemic Justice
* 5.1. Living Up to One's Responsibilities under Conditions of
Oppression: Meta-Lucidity
* 5.2. Promoting Lucidity and Social Change
* 5.3. Echoing: Chained Action, "Epistemic Heroes", and Social Networks
* 5.3.1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Epistemic Courage, Critical
Imagination and Epistemic Friction
* 5.3.2. Rosa Parks: Counter-Performativity, Chained Agency, and Social
Networks
* Chapter 6. Resistant Imagination and Radical Solidarity
* 6.1. Pluralistic Communities of Resistence
* 6.2. Normative Pluralism and Radical Solidarity
* 6.3. Epistemic Friction and Insurrectionary Genealogies
* 6.4. Guerrilla Pluralism, Counter-Memories, and Epistemologies of
Ignorance
* 6.5. Resistant Imaginations: Toward a Kaleidoscopic Social
Sensibility
* 6.6. Conclusion: Network Solidarity
* Coda
* References