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“Imperfect Discretion”: Interventions into the History of Philosophy by Twentieth-Century French Women Philosophers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Penelope Deutscher
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Abstract

How might we locate originality as emerging from within the “discrete” work of commentary? Because many women have engaged with philosophy informs (including commentary) that preclude their work from being seen as properly “original,” this question is a feminist issue. Via the work of selected contemporary French women philosophers, the author shows how commentary can reconfigure the philosophical tradition in innovative ways, as well as in ways that change what counts as philosophical innovation.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy , Spring 2000 , pp. 160 - 180
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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