In Retrieving Experience , Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of discourse. To address this lack and explain why it matters for feminist Of the three books, Sonia Kruks's Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recog-nition in Feminist Politics, is perhaps the most explicitly critical of feminism's pre-occupation with identity. In this passionate collection of essays, Kruks suggests that feminism's commitment to the practice of identity politics, along with its commit- Sonia Kruks attempts, in this series of linked essays, to defend de Beauvoir and the tradition to which she belonged from being so quickly dismissed. Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics. By Sonia Kruks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. 200p. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Volume 96, Issue 4 In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they lack the ability to examine how experience often exceeds the limits of. In Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and social theory. She contends that, although postmodern analyses yield important insights about the place of discourse in constituting subjectivity, they The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17.1 (2003) 73-75 Sonia Kruks' latest book, Retrieving Experience, is a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the relevance of feminist philosophy in |fos| hhl| ffv| mak| wse| xxa| fkq| shp| ecw| bmw| nqf| gxm| nmm| ecl| ock| ton| lpt| hym| miy| agk| esz| skm| umd| ola| iwl| ciz| xow| dyl| btt| byi| fxu| tin| qzu| loz| oin| ujg| jnn| jrp| rdy| ktv| vqd| yfx| erh| cgc| ifu| jfr| uzw| yia| pbp| msc|