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Identity Politics and Dialectical Reason: Beyond an Epistemology of Provenance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Sonia Kruks
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Abstract

Identity politics is important within feminism. However, it often presupposes an overly subjectivist theory of knowledge that I term an epistemology of provenance. I explore some works of feminist standpoint theory that begin to address the difficulties of such an epistemology. I then bring Sartre's account of knowledge in the Critique of Dialectical Reason to bear on these difficulties, arguing that his work offers tools for addressing them more adequately.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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