Fatal Abstractions: The Parallogics of Everyday Life - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Patricia J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820457841 ISBN 13 : 9780820457840

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Fatal Abstractions: The Parallogics of Everyday Life concludes Professor Thompson's «Hestia Trilogy». Adopting the analytic lenses of the Hestian/Hermean Dual Systems Paradigm, proposed in the trilogy's two previous volumes, the trilogy critiques paradigms that are baised in favor of the political at the expense of the familial. Professor Thompson challenges conventional «ways of seeing» the private/public and expands the metaphor of the double helix of everyday life to include the parallogics of the dual domains of human action. She invites the reader to compare and contrast homeplace/marketplace activities from a dual systems - instead of a gender - perspective. She suggests that the domestic/civic aspects of everyday life be recognized as co-responsible options and offers a case study of the demise of a hestian home economics department in the hermean environment of higher education to illustrate her points. The book concludes with a Hestian feminist plea for domestic literacy based on a reappraisal of «hearth and home» in antiquity and modernity. Professor Thompson suggests that a gender-equitable approach to the private/public demands of everyday life is an essential first step to achieving a «new humanism» in the new millennium.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Patricia J. Thompson (Yelena V. Mayakovsky) is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Bringing Feminism Home; Mayakovsky in Manhattan; Mayakovsky: Phantom Father; and edited Environmental Education for the 21st Century (Peter Lang, 1997). Her articles on Hestian Feminism have appeared in German, Finnish, Greek and Japanese publications. Her articles have appeared in English in Themis, Hypatia, and Philosophy in the Contemporary World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820457841
• ISBN 13: 9780820457840
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible