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Epistemology of the Closet

Release on 2008-01-17 | by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Epistemology of the Closet proposes that many of the major nodes of thought and
knowledge in twentieth-century Western culture as a whole are structured —
indeed, fractured — by a chronic, now endemic crisis of homo /heterosexual ...

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520934482
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 280
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Epistemology of the Closet

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde--Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

Language: en
Pages: 280

Epistemology of the Closet

Authors: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-17 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

Language: en
Pages: 314

Social Epistemology

Authors: Steve Fuller

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller

Language: en
Pages: 291

Epistemology

Authors: Laurence BonJour

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

In this study, Laurence BonJour introduces the serious philosophy student to the history and concepts of epistemology, while simultaneously challenging them to take an active part in its ongoing debates. The text reflects BonJour's conviction that the place to start any discussion of the theories of knowledge is with the

Language: en
Pages: 1052

Handbook of Epistemology

Authors: I. Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Wolenski

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-31 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological problems, supplemented by a historical account of this field. The entries are self-contained and substantial contributions to topics such as the sources of knowledge and belief, knowledge acquisition, and

Language: en
Pages: 220

Epistemology and Emotions

Authors: Dr Dominique Kuenzle, Dr Georg Brun, Dr Ulvi Doguoglu

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Undoubtedly, emotions sometimes thwart our epistemic endeavours. But do they also contribute to epistemic success? The thesis that emotions 'skew the epistemic landscape', as Peter Goldie puts it in this volume, has long been discussed in epistemology. Recently, however, philosophers have called for a systematic reassessment of the epistemic relevance