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Work #1643 · Late-middle

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Mary Daly
1987 (with Jane Caputi) · English
Radical-feminist dictionary / neologistic philosophical work · Mary-Daly radical feminism / linguistic-politics / post-Christian feminism

Daly and Caputi's 1987 'Wickedary' — radical-feminist dictionary, playful neologistic linguistic-politics

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Attribute Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (Late-middle)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Impersonal
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

1987. Daly was 59, in the period of her most prolific late-career work.

Space

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Boston (Boston College and Daly's home in Newton, the converted-barn residence where she would hold her late seminars).

Matter

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Single radical-feminist dictionary (~280 pages, lavishly illustrated). Form is encyclopedia-dictionary with Caputi's illustrations integrated throughout.

Observer

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Late-middle Daly. The observer-philosopher is the senior radical-feminist philosopher-theologian at her most linguistically inventive.

Energy

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Linguistic-political energies. The book's distinctive force is the combination of philosophical-theological seriousness with linguistic-poetic play.

Information

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Single book of ~1500 dictionary entries plus structural-thematic material. The Preliminary Webs (introduction) sets out the philosophical-methodological framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language

Late-Daly distinctive linguistic-political work. The Wickedary is the most extensive single example of radical-feminist neologistic philosophy in English; the book has been continuously productive in subsequent feminist-philosophical engagement with language (especially feminist-philosophy-of-language and feminist literary theory).