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loving ignorance

📖 Definitions

"Loving ignorance would then be the opposite of willful ignorance and would involve an attitude toward that which we cannot know." (Tuana 2006, 15)

"Loving ignorance, like loving perception, involves the realization that although much experience can be shared there will always be experiences that cannot. Alterity is not something we attempt to remove; difference is not something we can arrogate. Our differences, the differences between white or Angla women and women of color are something to be approached with a sense of humility and a sense of wonder. Loving ignorance is thus a recognition that there are modalities of being that exceed our own and cannot be fully comprehended." (Tuana 2006, 16)

💡 Examples

  • Issue of race in the women's health movement

🔗 Relations

📚 References

  • Tuana, Nancy. 2006. “The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women’s Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance.” Hypatia 21 (3): 1–19. https: doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01110.x.