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By Miriam Schneir

ISBN-10: 0804152462

ISBN-13: 9780804152464

Listed here are the fundamental ancient writings of feminism. a lot of those works, lengthy out of print or forgotten in what Miriam Schneir describes as a male-dominated literary culture, are eventually introduced out of obscurity and into the sunshine of up to date research and feedback. integrated are greater than 40 decisions, coveting one hundred fifty years of writings on women's fight for freedom -- from the yankee Revolution to the 1st a long time of the 20th century.

This up-to-date, wide-ranging assortment encompasses the an important problems with women's oppression. a shocking measure of continuity among the guidelines of the previous and the hot feminism is obvious all through. In her choice, Miriam Schneir has by way of handed writings that deal completely with the superseded subject of suffrage as a way to concentration recognition at the nonetheless unsolved feminist difficulties: marriage as an software of oppression; woman's wish to keep an eye on her personal physique; the industrial independence of ladies; the hunt for selfhood.

This richly assorted assortment includes excerpts from books, essays, speeches, records, letters, in addition to poetry, drama, and fiction. huge commentaries through the editor support the reader see the historic context of every choice.

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24. Theorie der Gesellschaft als Theorie der Geschichte 43 miiBten sie auf ein Subjekt konvergieren, das sie in seiner Geistigkeit als faites brutes mitbrachte. Foucault stellt die Frage nach dem Woher dieser Ordnungen. Die Antwort ist fUr uns deshalb decouvrierend, weil sie die Dauer jener argumentativen Struktur offenbart, die die einstige Logik bestimmt hat: Er laBt diese Ordnungen jeder Kultur schlicht vorgegeben sein. Der Grund dieses fUr ein historisches Denken einigermaBen verbliiffenden Eingestandnisses ist nicht zweifelhaft: Foucault denkt in der Struktur einer Ableitungslogik.

13 Dabei ist das erste insofern im zweiten aufgehoben, als es nicht nur notwendiges Durchgangsstadium ist, vielmehr im ersten die Bestimmung auf das zweite hin schon angelegt ist, eben deshalb aber auch das erste im zweiten >aufgehoben< bleibt. Das Spekulative dieser Geschichtsphilosophie liegt darin, dafl Geschichte sich als Objektivation eines sich se1bst realisierenden absoluten Geistes darstellt. Es ist nur die Kehrseite dieser Bestimmung, das Vorfindliche in der Welt als Objektivation dieses Geistes zu verstehen, also positiv.

284-309, hier S. 284. Theorie der Gesellschaft als Theorie der Geschichte 55 tionen erfolgen soIl. Soziologisch ist sie darin, daB es schlieBlich und endlich urn eine umfassende Theorie ebenso der Gesellschaft wie der Geschichte geht. Umfassend soIl diese Theorie in einem doppelten Sinne sein: Sie solI diachronisch aIle Gesellschaften umfassen, die sich je in der Geschichte gebildet haben, und das so, daB jede einzelne sich in ihren Strukturen als Ausdruck der Entwicklung einer Organisationskompetenz erweist, die von den pristinen Gesellschaften auf dem Subsistenzniveau des Sammelns undJagens bis zu den industriellen Gesellschaften der Gegenwart reicht.

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