After the "Speculative Turn", Realism; Philosophy; and Feminism, Realism; Philosophy; and Feminism

Year

2016

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

22-Feb-2026

Keywords

Feminist & Women's Studies ; Philosophy

Description

Something important is happening within and to Philosophy.¹ It is something that has happened a thousand times over, yet every time it repeats it happens as if for the first time. The difficulty is making this event stick. What is this event? The event of the disruption of Philosophy by its own outside, the outside that it pretends it does not have. Philosophy, by virtue of being the most universal subject, the most generic art, cannot imagine that there is something which it cannot capture or has not always already captured, one way or another. But things fall apart. They...