This volume continues and completes Irigaray's writing on "sexual difference" by addressing the ethical implications of her work. Irigaray speaks out against the egalitarian project of feminism important to the Anglo-American school of women thinkers; instead she pursues questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought - philosophy, science or psychoanalysis. Counterposing classical philosophical texts - including those of Plato, Spinoza and Levinas - with a series of meditations on the female experience, she shows that traditional philosophical concepts are problematic. She advocates new philosophies grounded in women's experience, through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". Only then can love become ethical and the basis of a transformed ethics of sexual difference. This volume provides a major contribution to an expanding feminist and philosophical discourse and should be of value to feminists, literary critics and philosophers.
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Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic. >
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Irigaray's `rewriting' of philosophy and philosophers is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy these days. It is also a refreshing breath of thought on `Feminism'. The concept of `Place'is presented as Woman, a return to the primordial feminine via `deconstruction' (in the best possible way) of western patriarchial hegemony. Besides the radical content, it is is beautifully written - clear and profound. Read this book!
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- This Sex Which is Not One by Luce Irigaray in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray in Front Matter
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 78
- The Visible and the Invisible (Studies in Phenomenology and Existental Philosophy) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on page 149
- Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 78
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- Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (Re-Reading the Canon) by Tina Chanter on 11 pages
- Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare by Theresa M. Krier on 8 pages
- Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy by Dorothea Olkowski on 7 pages
- Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon by Graham L. Hammill on 5 pages
- Deconstruction, Feminist Theology, and the Problem of Difference: Subverting the Race/Gender Divide (Religion and Postmodernism) by Ellen T. Armour on 5 pages
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