Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism

Jasmin Trächtler Assistant Professor at the TU Dortmund, Germany.Isabel G. Gamero Cabrera is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at Complutense University, Spain.Camille Braune holds a PhD in philosophy from Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University, France.Sandra Laugier is a Professor of Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism is philosophical inquiry at its best. The essays reconfigure the busy intersections of ordinary language philosophy, epistemology, and moral, political, and feminist philosophy. There are productive tensions between the essays in this volume, which open new and exciting avenues for exploration on matters of great importance in living. If the goodness of a philosophical text is measured in its usefulness, as Wittgenstein suggests, this book sets a new standard.

• INTRODUCTION1. General introduction2. What is Ordinary Language Philosophy?2.1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin and Stanley Cavell2.2 The Oxford Quartet3. Main contents of the book4. By Way of ConclusionReferencesList of abbreviations for Wittgenstein’s WorksCHAPTERSPart 1. The Oxford Quartet: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Heirs and Critics1.1 A Murdochian-Wittgensteinian Philosophical Method for Ethics (Camille Braune & Miranda Boldrini)1.2 Anscombe, Foot and Wittgenstein: Aristotelian Necessities and Forms of Life (Valérie Aucouturier)1.3 ‘Wittgenstein, oh dear me, well he was an ego wasn’t he, and he was always right’: Midgley on Wittgenstein (Ellie Robson)1.4 Disrupting the Game: Ordinary Language and Situated Action (Saleta de Salvador Agra)Part 2. Rethinking Moral and Political Emancipation with Ordinary Language Philosophy2.1 Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell: Some Roots of a Feminist OLP (Sandra Laugier)2.2 The Female Voice and the Movement of Thought (Veena Das)2.3 Feminism and Forms of Life (Nora Hämäläinen)2.4 Agency and the Arrogation of Voice: Stanley Cavell’s Wittgensteinian Feminism (Sarah Drews Lucas)Part 3. Renewal of Feminist Epistemology from a Wittgensteinian Perspective3.1 Rule-Following and Rule-Changing: A Feminist-Wittgensteinian Take on Language and Liberation (Anna Boncompagni)3.2 Acts of Imagination: Women Talking and Wittgenstein on Understanding the New (Camila Lobo)3.3 Seeing Aspects and the Sexed Body (Linda M. G. Zerilli)Part 4. Conceptual Approaches to Gender after Wittgenstein4.1 The Woman Question and Gender Self-Identification (Danièle Moyal-Sharrock & Constantine Sandis)4.2 Conceptual Discontents: A Critical Inquiry into the Relationship between Wittgenstein’s Ordinary Language Philosophy and Feminist Conceptual Engineering (Jasmin Trächtler)4.3 Wittgenstein and Butler on Nonbinarism (Isabel G. Gamero Cabrera)