Document Type
Article
Publication
University of Miami Law Review
Year
2003
Citation Information
Daria Roithmayr, Easy for you to Say: An Essay on Outsiders, the Usefulness of Reason, and Radical Pragmatism, 57 U. MIAMI L. REV. 939 (2003), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1880.
Abstract
In this essay, I argue that Schlag's critique of reason fails to take into account the concerns of people of color and women in two ways. First, it fails to address the way in which the ideology of reason structures racial and gendered power. Second, it fails to consider the value of the ideology of reason for people of color and women, both of whom might extract political gain from deploying the incumbent ideology to their advantage. I offer a version of radical pragmatism that attempts to reconcile Schlag's critique of reason with these criticisms.
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