A COM 265X Chapter Notes - Chapter 35: Seyla Benhabib, Communitarianism, Liberal Democracy
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Standpoint- a place from which to criically view the world around us. Local knowledge- knowledge situated in ime, place, experience, and relaive power, as opposed to knowledge from nowhere that"s supposedly value-free. Strong objecivity- the strategy of staring research from the lives of women and other marginalized groups, which upon criical relecion and resistance provides them with a less false view of reality. In 1807, georg hegel analyzed the master-slave relaionship to show that what people. Know about themselves, others, and society depends on which group they are in. Karl marx and freidrich engels referred to the proletarian standpoint, which suggests that the impoverished poor who provide sweat equity are society"s ideal knowers, as long as they understand the class struggle in which they are involved. Sandra harding notes that standpoint theory was a project straining at the bit" to emerge from feminist social theorists who were familiar with marxian epistemology .
