ABSTRACT
An expanded analysis can generate a positive account of the moral significance of disorientation in understanding systems of oppression and challenging injustices that emerge from them. Disorientation tends to be understood as something one needs to get over, or as something that needs treatment so that one can return to being a self who acts consistently and with steadfastness. One of the effects of reading Disorientation and Moral Life is to feel disoriented with respect to what philosophers, psychologists, clinicians, and others take for granted. Understanding how concepts work in a family resemblance way means, attending to the details of what people say and do – how the concept is used in everyday contexts in which it gets its meaning. By starting from relationships that shape everyday practices, feminist relational theory not only expands the boundaries of what counts as moral and political, it also provides a direct route to uncovering injustices that shape significant parts of many lives.
