Isobel&Gillian&Julia&Hélène&Camille&Judith&Eve&me

Abstract This essay explores the curious manner in which Isobel Armstrong's The Radical Aesthetic was largely written out of the scholarship of the affective turn and the return to aesthetics, despite pronounced continuities between her work and subsequent scholarship. This essay argues that the primary reason for the neglect of Armstrong was due to her insistence on bringing together feminism and aesthetic critique as coimplicated philosophical projects under the assertion that there is no thinking of form without feminist thought and that feminist thought is a thinking of form.