Transforming knowledge

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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2005.
Edition:2nd ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797950506719
Table of Contents:
  • 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