Feminism, value pluralism and the problem of judgement

Lecture co-sponsored by the Centre for Modern Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature

Linda Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Signifying Woman; Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom; and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought, the politics of language, aesthetics, and Continental philosophy. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow.

Her lecture will discuss the problem of judgment in a multicultural and global context and a critique of certain universalist approaches, such as that of Seyla Benhabib and Martha Nussbaum.

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, at 7:30pm.  Please contact Helen Jacobs (hdj1@york.ac.uk) if you would like to attend the reception.