Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory
Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I urge proponents of contemporary emancipatory politics to break with modernism rather than recover suppressed possibilities of modern political ideals. Whether we consider ourselves continuous or discontinuous with modern political theory and practice, of course, can only be a choice, more or less reasonable given certain presumptions and interests. Since political theory and practice from the 18th to the 20th centuries is hardly a unity, making even the phrase “modern political theory” problematic, contemporary political theory and practice both continues and breaks with aspects of the political past of the West. From the point of view of a feminist interest, neverthelesss, emancipatory politics entails a rejection of modern traditions of moral and political life.

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