PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intentionality, System On A Chip, Iris Marion Young
28 Sep 2016
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Situation : mechanics of everyday activities, illuminate a lot about our relation w/ the world, feminine bodily comportment, certain phys. acting out w/ gender in everyday ways, start w/ couple of ideas from merleau-ponty + beauvoir. B: observation that women have certain way of existing in patriarchal society, placement b/w subject and object. The body and the world: consid. the mvmc of body in daily, purposeful tasks. Why do this: b/c these sorts of mvmts make up our rel. to the world (phenomenology!, 2 theoretical tools: Merleau-ponty"s acct. for the relation b/w body and the world. Beauvoir"s acct. of woman existence b/w immanence and transcendence (b/w. Straus and throwing like a girl : straus. Observation: girls consis. throw obj. in a peculiar way. Concludes: this has to do with their femininity . At least does not locate this in anatomy. Via refusing to reduce femininity to anatomy, s. takes step in right dir.
