Dialogue of Civilizations from a Feminist Perspective
Subject Areas : Research in Theoritical PoliticsKeywords: Feminism symbolic Kristeva dialogue,
Abstract :
This article is an attempt to clarify some aspects of interaction among civilizations from a feminist point of view. Questions that this article tries to answer are: If we consider the “symbolic” order of modern societies on one hand, and “semiotic” anarchy (in Kristevian terms) of other societies on the other, is there any possibility to establish a dialogue among these cultures on the basis of mutual understanding? Or would that be an agonal dialogue which, as Lyotard puts it “ falls in the domain of agonistics” of power? And finally, how would a non- agonal dialogue be possible without reduction of any culture into another?