Engaging with Irigaray

Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-231-07897-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

Engaging with Irigaray is the first collection of essays that attempts to go beyond the question of essentialism in order to provide a full critical assessment of Irigaray's contribution to a number of fields, notably philosophy. By reconsidering Irigaray's writings in the field of European thought and politics in which she positions herself, the authors of these essays--among them Judith Butler, Elizabeth Weed, and Rosi Braidotti--shed new light on the relationship of Irigaray to many of the philosophers she has "romanced," from Aristotle to Deleuze.

This collection of essays will be invaluable to readers interested both in continental feminism and the intellectual engagement of an international group of scholars grappling with the issues of gender difference, sexuality, and women's politics between women and with men.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Carolyn

Schor, Naomi

Whitford, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements -- ix

IntroductionNaomi Schor -- Previous Engagements: The Receptions of Irigaray -- 3

Margaret Whitford -- Reading Irigaray in the Nineties -- 15

Part 1: Beyond EssentialismCarolyn Burke -- Irigaray -- 37

Naomi Schor -- This Essentialism Which Is Not One: Coming to Grips with Irigaray -- 57

Elizabeth Weed -- The Question of Style -- 79

Rosi Braidott -- Of Bugs and Women: Irigaray and Deleuze on the Becoming-Woman -- 111

Part 2: Irigaray and/in PhilosophyJudith Butler -- Bodies That Matter -- 141

Jean-Joseph Goux -- Luce Irigaray Versus the Utopia of the Neutral Sex -- 175

Joanna Hodge -- Irigaray Reading Heidegger -- 191

Ellen Mortensen -- Woman's Untruth and le féminin: Reading Luce Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger - 211

Philippa Berry -- The Burning Glass: Paradoxes of Feminist Revelation in Speculum -- 229

Part 3: Toward a New Symbolic OrderCarolyn Burke -- Translation Modified: Irigaray in English -- 249

Dianne Chisholm -- Irigaray's Hysteria -- 263

Elizabeth Hirsh -- Back in Analysis: How to Do Things with Irigaray -- 285

Luisa Muraro -- Female Genealogies -- 317

Elizabeth Grosz -- The Hetero and the Homo: The Sexual Ethics of Luce Irigaray -- 335

Gail M. Schwab -- Mother's Body, Father's Tongue: Mediation and the Symbolic Order -- 351

Margaret Whitford -- Irigaray, Utopia, and the Death Drive -- 379

Bibliography: Luce Irigaray -- 401Contributors' Notes -- 407Index -- 411

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Burke has collaborated on the translations of This Sex Which Is Not One and An Ethics of Sexual Difference, both by Luce Irigaray. She is the author of the forthcoming biography, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.

Naomi Schor is William Haynes Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. She is author of Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction and George Sand and Idealism, both published by Columbia University Press, as well as Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine. She also coedits, with Elizabeth Weed, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.

Margaret Whitford is Reader in Modern French Thought at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University. She is the author of Merleau Ponty's Critique of Sartre and Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine, editor of The Irigaray Reader, and coeditor of Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy and Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology.