To Speak is Never Neutral [Hardcover]

Luce Irigaray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0415908124 | ISBN-13: 978-0415908122 | Edition: 1

Feminist philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray is renowned for her analyses of language, studies that can be precise and poetic at the same time. In this volume of her work on language, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, she is concerned with developing a model that can reveal those unconscious or pre-conscious structures that determine speech. A key element of her method is the comparison of spoken and written language, through which she teases out the sexual and social configurations of speech.

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Review

"To Speak is Never Neutral is a most important and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of how scientific language functions. Dispelling once and for all the notion that scientific language is objective, Luce Irigaray unveils the gendered - and, crucially, the prejudicial - dimensions of a range of psychoanalytic discourses. Challenging and provocative, this book is also a significant ethical intervention into debates both about how we speak today and about how content itself is never neutral." - Michael Worton, University College London --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Luce Irigaray is a leading philosopher and feminist thinker, best known for Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. More recently she has published I Love to You and To Be Two (both available from Routledge).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415908124
• ISBN-13: 978-0415908122
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,497,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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