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Selected Works of Helen A Fielding
Contribution to Book
The sum of what she is saying: Bringing essentials back to the body
Creation, Resistance, Flight: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (2000)
  • Helen A Fielding, The University of Western Ontario
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Abstract
This chapter is an examination of the debate around essences in feminist philosophy and theorizing. Here, essences are rethought through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as carnal or embodied essences. As such, embodied essences are found at the joints, the hollows that are not inside us but that connect us, so that we are not isolated within cultural and historical zones. Embodied essences can be taken up in language as idealities.
Keywords
  • Essences,
  • Merleau-Ponty,
  • feminist phenomenology,
  • essentialism,
  • embodiment
Disciplines
Publication Date
2000
Editor
Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN
13: 978-0801486456
Citation Information
Helen A Fielding. "The sum of what she is saying: Bringing essentials back to the body" Ithaca, New YorkCreation, Resistance, Flight: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/helen_fielding/19/