Shari Stone-Mediatore

A theoretical book arguing that storytelling, especially by those marginalized by society, is a valid way of knowing and sharing knowledge, despite its criticism by both empiricists and deconstructionists. This is a major contribution to “feminist standpoint theory” and the attempt to “think from others’ lives.”

Stone-Mediatore is an academic philosopher steeped in “western civilization” and involved in debates about how we know what is true. Her prose is dense and can be slow going for individuals outside those debates. The points she makes, however, are critical to the decisions we all make about whom we can trust. Stone sets out to affirm the value of well-told stories in our pursuit of knowledge and to establish guidelines for considering them.

See all my review at my blog:
http://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/reading-across-borders-by-shari-stone-me...… (mais)