Returning to Irigaray

Returning to Irigaray
Author: Maria Cimitile
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2006-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791480860

Luce Irigaray is one of the most influential philosophers and theorists in the field of feminist thought, and her work is considered both revolutionary and controversial. This volume offers the first critical assessment of the relation of her early critical and poetic writings to her later political and practical philosophy. Contributors examine how the question of sexual difference has unfolded in a wealth of different directions in Irigaray's later work, focusing on the areas of nature and technology, social and political theory and praxis, ethics, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. They also address whether there has been a radical conceptual "turn" in Irigaray's thought by exploring the idea of a "turn" as a return to themes that have concerned her all along. The essays contend that Irigaray's writings should be read, criticized, or promoted within the context of her overall philosophical project.

Speculum of the Other Woman

Speculum of the Other Woman
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1985
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780801493300

A radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.

Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being

Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being
Author: Virpi Lehtinen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438451296

The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty a framework for what she characterizes as dynamic essentialism, which seeks to account for the complex networks of lived experience: embodied, affective, and spiritual relations to oneself, to others, and to the world. Rather than prescribing one norm to which all women should conform, Lehtinen argues, Irigaray's work exemplifies how each individual woman in her own way contributes to a norm of femininity that is both unique and singular but also connected to the existential styles of past, present, and future others.

An Ethics of Sexual Difference

An Ethics of Sexual Difference
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826477125

Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.

Differences

Differences
Author: Emily Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190275596

Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the reception of their thought. What does it mean to return to Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in light of questions and problems of contemporary feminism, including intersectional and queer criticisms of their projects? How should we now take up, amplify, and surpass the horizons opened by their projects? Seeking answers to these questions, the essays in this volume return to Beauvoir and Irigaray to find what the two philosophers share. And as the authors make clear, the richness of Beauvoir and Irigaray's thought far exceeds the reductive parameters of the Eurocentric, bourgeois second-wave debates that have constrained interpretation of their work. The first section of this volume places Beauvoir and Irigaray in critical dialogue, exploring the place of the material and the corporeal in Beauvoir's thought and, in doing so, reading Beauvoir in a framework that goes beyond a theory of gender and the humanism of phenomenology. The essays in the second section of the volume take up the challenge of articulating points of dialogue between the two focal philosophers in logic, ethics, and politics. Combined, these essays resituate Beauvoir and Irigaray's work both historically and in light of contemporary demands, breaking new ground in feminist philosophy.

Engaging with Irigaray

Engaging with Irigaray
Author: Carolyn Burke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1994
Genre: Feminist theory
ISBN: 0231078978

The authors of these essays--including 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.

A Politics of Impossible Difference

A Politics of Impossible Difference
Author: Penelope Deutscher
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801487972

Deutscher is the first scholar to focus on Irigaray's controversial later works. She examines Irigaray's claim that the politics of feminism and multiculturalism are intrinsically linked. The book also gives a clear introduction to the entire corpus of her work.

Revolutionary Time

Revolutionary Time
Author: Fanny Söderbäck
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438477015

This book is the first to examine the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. Because of their association with reproduction, embodiment, and the survival of the species, women have been confined to the cyclical time of nature—a temporal model that is said to merely repeat itself. Men, on the other hand, have been seen as bearers of linear time and as capable of change and progress. Fanny Söderbäck argues that both these temporal models make change impossible because they either repeat or repress the past. The model of time developed here—revolutionary time—aims at returning to and revitalizing the past so as to make possible a dynamic-embodied present and a future pregnant with change. Söderbäck stages an unprecedented conversation between Kristeva and Irigaray on issues of both time and difference, and engages thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt, and Plato along the way.

In the Beginning, She Was

In the Beginning, She Was
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2012-12-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441106375

A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference.

Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray
Author: Margaret Whitford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317835786

An ideal introduction to Igigaray's whole corpus, which includes previously untranslated texts.