Tag: Excluded

Free Download Metaphysics of the Excluded: On the Relationship between Matter, Construction, and Reality in Butler and Kant by Charlotte Döhrmann
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 54 Pages | ISBN : 3658453486 | 1 MB
For more than 30 years, Judith Butler’s thesis that gender is constructed has led to unresolved misunderstandings and conflicting interpretations. This work engages with Butler’s constructivism epistemologically and develops the thesis that Butler is misunderstood for the very reasons their philosophy critiques: the necessities of thought imposed by traditional metaphysics and its dualistic conceptual framework. "Matter" is not a neutral or prediscursive concept but is always already embedded in a gendered discourse and functions as the constitutively excluded. Kantian epistemology serves here as both an example of implicitly misogynistic philosophy and a framework to understand the misinterpretations of Butler as well as the fundamental epistemological issue-the relationship between the knowing subject and "reality". What does it mean for Butler that even material aspects are constructed yet real, without developing an idealistic concept of reality?

Free Download Madhushree Sekher, Radu Carciumaru, "Including the Excluded in South Asia: Power, Politics and Policy Perspectives from the Region"
English | 2019 | pages: 263 | ISBN: 9813297581, 9813297611 | PDF | 3,3 mb
This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia. It not only captures how ‘social exclusion’ is intrinsic to deprivation or deprivation in itself, but also the processes of political engagement and social interactions that the socially excluded develop as strategies and networks for their advancement. Consequently, the book goes beyond structures or agency, and examines the question of a more dynamic approach to provide spaces for the ‘socially excluded’ to self-manage exclusion, thereby raising discussions around the contested positions that underlie development discourse on social inequality.

Free Download Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by Michael R. Dove
English | February 27, 2024 | ISBN: 0300273673, 0300270100 | True PDF | 286 pages | 32.6 MB
This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from folk knowledge