It accomplishes this in part by giving us the latitude to be more attentive to lived, embodied experiences of linguistic practice (ex., the tone of voice we use, the rhythm of our speech, our body language, etc. Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951) Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most important since Immanuel Kant. The utility of Wittgenstein’s work is thus twofold: It helps us, on the one hand, to clarify the particular epistemologies and philosophical methodologies employed by feminist theory and, on the other, to better grasp political problems tied to our public discourses, discrete acts of speech, and the gendered aspects of our language.
Finally, ordinary language philosophy - a philosophical movement inspired by the later Wittgenstein’s work - has given us the tools to attend to our linguistic practices with an eye to eradicating linguistic sexism, inclusive of inventing new ways of talking about and performing our selfhood. Wittgenstein’s notions of “forms of life” and “language-games” have been used to reflect upon collective feminist practices, the social construction of subjectivities, and the very fabric of our lived experience. Attention to particulars, and an emphasis upon descriptions of ordinary language use, have led to new directions in moral philosophy, among them the ethics of care.
Wittgenstein’s philosophy has been a fruitful starting point for a number of developments within feminist thought. Organized by Mickaëlle Provost (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Conference), Jasmin Trächtler (Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway Conference, Workshops), Sandra Laugier (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Conference), and Carlota Salvador Megias (University of Bergen, Norway Workshops
0 kommentar(er)
