A Question of Voice: Philosophy and the Search for Legitimacy

Scapp, Ron

ISBN 10: 0472132199 / ISBN 13: 9780472132195

Published by University of Michigan Press, 2020

Seller Inventory # 383511274

Synopsis:

A Question of Voice: Philosophy and the Search for Legitimacy offers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities. By identifying voice as a significant theme and means by which and through which we might better engage some important philosophical questions, Ron Scapp hopes to expand traditional philosophical discussion and discourse regarding questions about validity, legitimacy, empathy, and solidarity. He offers an innovative perspective that is informed and guided by multiculturalism, ethnic studies, queer studies, feminism, and thinkers and critics such as bell hooks, Barbara Christian, Angela Davis, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, among others. A Question of Voice is an American investigation, but also suggests questions that emanate from contemporary continental thought as well as issues that arise from transnational perspectives—an approach that is motived by doing philosophy in an age of multiculturalism.

About the Author:

Ron Scapp is Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Question of Voice: Philosophy and the ...
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New