Irigaray (eBook)

Rachel Jones (Autor)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-7308-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 transformation of western thought. Through detailed analysis of her most important text, Speculum of the Other Woman, Rachel Jones carefully examines Irigaray's transformative readings of such icons of the western tradition as Plato, Descartes, Kant and Hegel. She shows that these readings underpin Irigaray's claim that western philosophy has been dependent on the forgetting of both sexual difference and of our singular beginnings in birth. In response, Irigaray seeks to recover a positive account of sexual difference which would release woman from her traditional position as the 'other' of the subject and allow her to speak as a subject in her own right.

In a sensitive reading of Irigaray's work, Jones shows why this distinctively feminist project necessarily involves the transformation of the fundamental terms of western metaphysics. By foregrounding Irigaray's approach to questions of otherness and alterity, she concludes that, for Irigaray, cultivating an ethics of sexuate difference is the condition of ethical relations in general. Lucidly and persuasively written, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars seeking to understand Irigaray's original contribution to philosophical and feminist thought.

Rachel Jones is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 7
Full Contents 9
Acknowledgements 12
Abbreviations 14
Introduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 15
1: Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy 30
2: Re-Visiting Plato’s Cave: Orientation and Origins 52
3: The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story ... 80
4: Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme 108
5: Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman 144
6: The Status of Sexuate Difference 174
7: An Ethics of Sexuate Difference 213
Conclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being Between 244
Notes 247
Bibliography 274
Index 283

Rezensionen

"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the
sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on
the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for
introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate
work - philosophy at its best."

Tina Chanter, DePaul University

"Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's
thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as
well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of
central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between
matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a
female subject position."

Alison Stone, Lancaster University

"This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all
those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's
prose - or who have found the most important of her writings,
Speculum of the Other Woman, simply too baffling. Written in
an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in
showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still
matters today."

Christine Battersby, University of Warwick

"This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of
Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist

philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not
seen in other texts."

Breanne Fahs, Arizona State University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Reihe/Serie: Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: feminism, french feminism, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, critical theory, literary theory, cultural studies • Psychoanalyse • Psychoanalysis • Psychologie • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-7308-2 / 0745673082
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7308-0 / 9780745673080