3. Taking the Risk of Essence: A Deweyan Theory in Some Feminist Conversations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Love/Knowledge: Sojourning with Others, Meeting with Differences 1
5. PHILOSOPHY AND ITS OTHER
6. 1. Conceptual Understanding and Knowing Other-wise: Reflections on Rationality and Spirituality in Philosophy 19
7. 2. Points of Convergence Between Dooyeweerdian and Feminist Views of the Philosophic Self 54
8. 3. Taking the Risk of Essence: A Deweyan Theory in Some Feminist Conversations 69
9. ETHICS AND/OF THE OTHER
10. 4. Singular Interruptions: Rortian Liberalism and the Ethics of Deconstruction 105
11. 5. Face-to-Face: Ethical Asymmetry or the Symmetry of Mutuality? 131
12. 6. Structures of Violence, Structures of Peace: Levinasian Reflections on Just War and Pacifism 159
13. 7. Again Ethics: A Levinasian Reading of Caputo Reading Levinas 172
14. A GOD WITH/FOR THE OTHER
15. 8. How to Avoid Not Speaking: Attestations 217
16. 9. Crossing the Threshold: Sojourning Together in the Wild Spaces of Love 235
17. Index 259
18. Notes on Contributors 267