Titled Interpretive Capacities and Oppression: The Epistemic Power of Emotions Against Hermeneutical Alienation, my MA thesis aims to show that dominant hermeneutical resources have the power to affect the interpretive capacities of oppressed individuals to the point of alienating them. Through the concept of hermeneutical alienation, I wish to highlight the seriousness of the harm and establish that emotions constitute an indispensable source of knowledge against oppression.

Supervisor : Amandine Catala

Postgraduate summer term at the University of Bologna, Italy.