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Federica Gregoratto
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Gregoratto
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PublicationAgonistic Recognition, Intersections and the Ambivalence of Family Bonds: John Dewey's Critical Theory Manifesto in China.John Dewey’s lectures in China, delivered at Peking University in 1919–1920, are currently available to us in two different forms: as a translation into English from a Chinese transcript of Dewey’s oral English talks, and as the notes Dewey wrote for himself as “plot outline” for the lectures. In the paper, I argue that a conjunct reading of the two texts conveys the unique opportunity to reconstruct Dewey’s outline of a critical social philosophy. I suggest to call this outline a “critical theory manifesto,” since it presents many significant similarities with other critical-theoretical motives belonging to the Hegelian-Marxian tradition of Critical Theory. In the first part of the article, I expound on the similarities between Dewey and, in particular, Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Honneth. In the second part of the paper, I highlight three original points made by Dewey that represent an improvement of Marxian-Hegelian critical theory, since they allow to build bridges between this particular critical-theoretical “school” and other critical approaches to society and politics. These points consist in: (a) Dewey’s idea of struggle for public recognition between groups; (b) the inter-sectionalist inspiration of Dewey’s social philosophy; (c) Dewey’s ambivalent assessment of intimate relationships.Type: journal articleJournal: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce SocietyVolume: 53Issue: 1
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PublicationThe Critical nature of Gender: A Deweyan Approach to the Sex/Gender DistinctionIn this article, I address a highly controversial question of feminist philosophy, namely, the so-called sex/gender distinction, from a Deweyan perspective. I argue that Dewey’s naturalism provides useful insights for dealing with and solving the problems concerning this particular type of dualism. My argumentation unfolds in three steps. First, after having briefly introduced the meanings of the two terms, I outline two different, both unsuccessful strategies for overcoming the sex/gender distinction, namely, what I call the radical social constructionist and the nondialectical naturalist strategies. Second, I draw on Dewey’s version of naturalism with the aim of conceiving of human beings as simultaneously naturally and socially constructed. Third, I sketch out the hypothesis that Dewey’s way of overcoming the pernicious dichotomy between nature and society may be useful for outlining a critical metaphysics of genderType: journal articleJournal: Journal of speculative philosophy : JSPVolume: 31Issue: 2
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PublicationWhy Love Kills: Power, Gender Dichotomy, and Romantic Femicide.This article conceptually investigates a type of gender murder, “romantic femicide.” I understand this as the extreme form of violence that occurs as a result of men's incapacity to cope with their (female) partners’ autonomy and power. The incapacity is not merely an individual pathology but is rather rooted in the dynamic of recognition characterizing love under structural conditions of gender dichotomy. After having sketched out the current discussion about femicide and its shortcomings, I argue for the hypothesis in three steps. First, I draw on a feminist theory of recognition in order to outline a nonviolent form of love. Lovers of this sort would depend on their partners and, at the same time, try to affirm their independence of them. Second, I show how such an interdependence bond would entail a dynamic of mutual empowerment. Third, I argue that love becomes a relation of domination as result of gender dichotomy. The dichotomization of two gender identities, “man” and “woman,” splits the interdependence bond in a way that allows only man's unilateral exercise of power and makes mutual empowerment impossible. Violence might be required for maintaining the dynamic of dominance; finally, romantic femicide may result from the unsustainability of such a structure.Type: journal articleJournal: Hypatia : a journal of feminist philosophyVolume: 32Issue: 1DOI: 10.1111/hypa.12308
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Quaderni della GinestraVolume: 2016/2Issue: 18
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Thesis ElevenVolume: 134Issue: 1
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Studies in social and political thoughtVolume: 25
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: ConstellationsVolume: 22Issue: 4
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Micro Mega, Almanacco di filosofiaVolume: 2013/1
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PublicationIl dolore del determinato. Seconda natura e riconoscimento tra Hegel, Honneth e Butler( 2013)Ranchio, FilippoType: journal articleJournal: La società degli individuiIssue: 3