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Title:The Gadamer–Habermas Debate through Mahabharata’s Women : Intersectional Feminist Engagements with Tradition and Critique
Authors:ID Mahadevan, Kanchana (Author)
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Language:English
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Abstract:Despite their affinities in criticizing the Cartesian subject, contextualizing texts, and upholding dialogue as integral to interpretation, there are differences between the hermeneutic projects of Gadamer and Habermas. While Gadamer emphasizes real dialogue and continuity with tradition, Habermas highlights ideal communication and critical distance. With regard to the underexplored feminist intervention in their debate, it can be said that there are greater affinities between feminist thought and Gadamer arising from their commitment to historically situated thought. But the vantage position of tradition in Gadamer has generated its set of feminist apprehensions. The paper scrutinizes the consequences of intervening in the Gadamer–Habermas debate on the hermeneutics of tradition from a feminist perspective. Analyzing women characters in the Indian epic Mahabharata, it argues that the intersectionality between their gendered identity and varied social locations of class and caste leads to diverse feminist perspectives. In conclusion, the paper ponders over whether they are all equally critical and the extent to which they can be reconciled.
Keywords:hermeneutics, critique, feminism, dialogue, tradition, Gadamer, Habermas, Mahasweta Devi, Mahabharata
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:23.06.2022
Year of publishing:2022
Number of pages:str. 147-185
Numbering:Letn. 31, št. 120/121
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-20672 New window
UDC:82.091
ISSN on article:1318-3362
DOI:10.32022/PHI31.2022.120-121.7 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:119770883 New window
Publication date in DiRROS:25.10.2024
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MAHADEVAN, Kanchana, 2022, The Gadamer–Habermas Debate through Mahabharata’s Women : Intersectional Feminist Engagements with Tradition and Critique. Phainomena : [glasilo Fenomenološkega društva v Ljubljani [online]. 2022. Vol. 31, no. 120/121, p. 147–185. [Accessed 10 April 2025]. DOI 10.32022/PHI31.2022.120-121.7. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=20672
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Title:Phainomena : [glasilo Fenomenološkega društva v Ljubljani
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Diskusija med Gadamerjem in Habermasom skoz perspektivo žensk v Mahabharati : Intersekcijski feministični spoprijemi s tradicijo in kritiko
Abstract:Kljub njuni bližini glede kritike kartezijanskega subjekta, kontekstualizacije besedil in zagovarjanja dialoga kot sestavnega dela interpretacije obstajajo pomembne razlike med hermenevtičnima projektoma Gadamerja in Habermasa. Medtem ko Gadamer poudarja resničen dialog in kontinuiteto s tradicijo, Habermas zastopa idealno komunikacijo in kritično distanco. Če se obrnemo k premalo raziskani feministični intervenciji znotraj njune diskusije, je mogoče ugotoviti, da dejansko obstaja večja bližina med feministično mislijo in Gadamerjem, ki izhaja iz zavezanosti historično situirani misli. Toda prednostni položaj tradicije pri Gadamerju je vendarle priklical določen niz feminističnih zadržkov. Članek iz feministične perspektive obravnava posledice intervencije v diskusijo med Gadamerjem in Habermasom glede hermenevtike tradicije. Na podlagi analize ženskih osebnosti v indijskem epu Mahabharata prispevek zagovarja misel, da intersekcionalnost njihovih spolno zaznamovanih identitet in mnogoterih družbenih položajev znotraj razredov in kast vodi k raznovrstnim feminističnim perspektivam. V zaključku skuša članek pretehtati, če so vse enako kritične in če jih je mogoče do določene mere medsebojno spraviti
Keywords:hermenevtika, kritika, feminizem, dialog, tradicija, Gadamer, Habermas, Mahasweta Devi, Mahabharata


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