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Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood Through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies
by Erin McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
by Erin McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
Ha! So, no wonder I kept thinking that McCarthy's romances had pleasingly feminist sensibilities. She's a feminist philosophy professor! And yet! Her fiction isn't at all pedantic...
pe·danti·cal·ly adv.
Synonyms: pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic
These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
So yeah, every time I use or read the word "pedantic," I always muse about how it seems almost impossible to say it without coming off as, well, pedantic. Heh.
pe·danti·cal·ly adv.
Synonyms: pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic
These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
So yeah, every time I use or read the word "pedantic," I always muse about how it seems almost impossible to say it without coming off as, well, pedantic. Heh.
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Apr 22, 2012 05:57pm
Not the same Erin McCarthy! I know someone who knows her (the philosophy professor, not the romance writer...she was disappointed to learn it's not the same person) but it's still a good book!
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