Returning to Irigaray

2006-11-06 Social Science

Author : Maria Cimitile
Release : 2006-11-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 860/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Returning to Irigaray written by Maria Cimitile . This book was released on 2006-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luce Irigaray is one of the most influential philosophers and theorists in the field of feminist thought, and her work is considered both revolutionary and controversial. This volume offers the first critical assessment of the relation of her early critical and poetic writings to her later political and practical philosophy. Contributors examine how the question of sexual difference has unfolded in a wealth of different directions in Irigaray's later work, focusing on the areas of nature and technology, social and political theory and praxis, ethics, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. They also address whether there has been a radical conceptual "turn" in Irigaray's thought by exploring the idea of a "turn" as a return to themes that have concerned her all along. The essays contend that Irigaray's writings should be read, criticized, or promoted within the context of her overall philosophical project.

Speculum of the Other Woman

1985 Social Science

Author : Luce Irigaray
Release : 1985
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 300/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Speculum of the Other Woman written by Luce Irigaray. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.

Returning to Irigaray

2006-11-09 Social Science

Author : Maria C. Cimitile
Release : 2006-11-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 200/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Returning to Irigaray written by Maria C. Cimitile. This book was released on 2006-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars examine the relation between Irigaray’s early writings and her later, more political work.

A Politics of Impossible Difference

2018-08-06 Social Science

Author : Penelope Deutscher
Release : 2018-08-06
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book A Politics of Impossible Difference written by Penelope Deutscher. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more importance to sexual difference than to race and multiculturalism. Penelope Deutscher's eagerly awaited book, the first to focus on the scholar's controversial later works, addresses this charge. Through a learned critique of these lesser-known writings, the book examines Irigaray's claim that the politics of feminism and multiculturalism are intrinsically linked. The volume also serves as a clear and comprehensive introduction to her entire corpus.In her recent works, Irigaray promotes sexual difference as the philosophical basis for legal, political, and linguistic reform. Deutscher explores this approach and in particular Irigaray's view that the very notion of difference is culturally "impossible." Taking this concept of impossibility into consideration, Deutscher evaluates Irigaray's contributions to contemporary debates about the politics of identity, recognition, diversity, and multiculturalism. In a balanced discussion, she considers the philosopher's work from the perspective of fellow critics including Michéle Le Doeuff, Drucilla Cornell, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Charles Taylor.

Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being

2014-05-14 Social Science

Author : Virpi Lehtinen
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being written by Virpi Lehtinen. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.

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