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Autore |
Minnich Elizabeth Kamarck |
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Titolo |
Transforming knowledge [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-66026-8 |
9786612660269 |
1-4399-0476-6 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Critical thinking |
Methodology |
Feminist theory |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Still Transforming Knowledge; Thinking: An Introductory Essay; Still Transforming Knowledge: Circling Out, Pressing Deeper; I. No One Beginning; II. Contextual Approaches : Thinking About; III. Conceptual Approaches Thinking Through; IV. Errors Basic to Dominant Traditions; Faulty Ceneralization and Hierarchically Invidious Monism; Circular Reasoning; Mystified Concepts; Partial Knowledge; V. Circling Back, Keeping Coing; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the prevailing systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary and therefore legitimate injustice, patriarchy, and violence. That is, these views divide humans into different kinds along a hierarchy whose elite still defines the systems that shape our lives and misshape our thinking. Like the first edition of Transforming Knowledge, this substantially revised edition calls upon us to continue to liberate our minds and the systems |
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