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RELEASING THE FEMININE VOICE: A CAVELLIAN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Article first published online: 16 JUN 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2011.01687.x
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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VIEFHUES-BAILEY, L. (2011), RELEASING THE FEMININE VOICE: A CAVELLIAN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. Modern Theology, 27: 452–461. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2011.01687.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 16 JUN 2011
- Article first published online: 16 JUN 2011
Abstract
How can we imagine anew the discipline of philosophy of religion, given the feminist critiques that it privileges thinking driven by the needs of male subject formation? I address this question first by arguing with Cavell that a specific masculine aversion of erotic reciprocity produces a particular skeptical epistemology. Overcoming this phallocentric thinking requires therefore a new eros. Secondly, I will argue that the fluidly gendered subjectivities I detect in Cavell's work on film enable such a new erotic and epistemic orientation. I conclude by outlining the consequences of this orientation for the pursuits of philosophy of religion.