Engaging With Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy And Modern European Thought (Gender and Culture Series) - Softcover

Burke, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231078978 ISBN 13: 9780231078979

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Engaging with Irigaray 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. Full description

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About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

By assessing Luce Irigaray's contribution to the fields of philosophy, literary theory and feminism, this collection of essays reconsiders Irigaray's position in Western thought and explores her relationship to other philosophers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231078978
• ISBN 13: 9780231078979
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442