Irigaray : towards a sexuate philosophy /
The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformati...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
2011
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : towards a sexuate philosophy
- Approaching Irigaray : Feminism, philosophy, feminist philosophy
- Re-visiting Plato's cave : orientation and origins
- The way out of the cave : a likely story
- Woman as other : Variations on an old theme
- Freud, Lacan, and speaking (as a) woman
- The status of sexuate difference
- An ethics of sexuate difference
- Conclusion : the incalculable being of being between
- Sexuate Subjects, Sexuate Others
- Reading Irigaray: Shifts, Continuities, Criticisms
- Chapter Outline
- Note on Translation
- 1 Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
- Importance of Style
- Irigaray and Philosophy
- Transforming Philosophy as a Feminist Project
- Irigaray and Feminist Philosophies: Equality and Difference
- Irigaray and the History of Philosophy
- Thinking Other-wise
- 2. Re-Visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins
- Speculum
- Returning to Plato's Cave
- Cave like a Womb
- Forgetting We Have Forgotten
- Back to Front and Upside-Down
- Origin and Offspring: A Disorienting Mimicry
- Wall Face that `Works All Too Well'
- Artistry of Mirrors
- 3. Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story ...
- Prisoner and his Shadow
- More Mirrors
- Maternal-Material: Blindspot of Metaphysics
- Metaphysical/Metaphorical Resources
- Forgotten Passage
- Contact and Contiguity
- Reclaiming Diotima: The Wisdom of Love
- 4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme
- Irigaray on Aristotle: Woman as a `Mutilated Male'
- Plotinus: Freezing over the Mother-Matter
- Irigaray Reading Descartes
- Self-Sufficient Meditator
- Need For An Other: God
- Nature without Gaps
- Thus Was I Reborn in Wonder
- Kantian Reversals
- Earthquakes and the Anxiety of Inversion
- Unanalysed Remainder
- Re-Framing the World
- 5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman
- Freud on Femininity
- Mirroring Plato
- Mute and the Melancholic
- Mothers and Others: Lacan and the Non-Existence of `Woman'
- Other of the Other
- Speaking in the Feminine/Speaking (as) Woman
- 6. Status of Sexuate Difference
- When Our Lips Speak Together
- Appealing to the Body: The Risk of Essentialism
- From Strategic Essentialism to Symbolic Transformation
- Refiguring the Female Body and the Form/Matter Distinction
- Ethics and/as Poetics: Recalling Being (as) Two
- Sexuate, the Sexual, and the Heterosexist
- Gender/Genre and the Ontological Status of Sexuate Difference
- Displacing (Hetero)Sexism through the Sexuate
- 7. Ethics of Sexuate Difference
- Irigaray and Antigone: Disrupting a Hegelian Dream
- Hegel versus Lacan: Doubling Dialectics for a Female Subject
- Antigone's Call
- Cultivating Alterity
- Refounding Ethics on Sexuate Difference
- Irigaray, Cultural Difference, and Race.