An Ethics of Sexual Difference (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Irigaray, Luce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826477127 ISBN 13: 9780826477125

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

Luce Irigaray offers the strongest feminist reading in the history of philosophy that I know' Judith Butler Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. She trained as an analyst with the Lacanian Freudian School of Paris and is a prolific and influential author, whose work ranges over philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics and social critique. Since the publication of This Sex Which is Not One she has developed her theory that there are significant differences between the language spoken by men and that spoken by women. 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. Translated by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill>

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Review:

"In An Ethics of Sexual Difference, Luce Irigaray offers the strongest feminist readings in the history of philosophy that I know. These readings enter the philosophical canon with a fine critical edge, 'miming' the masters, and exposing the erasure/construction of the feminine by which they proceed. Theoretically extravagant but pervasively erudite, Irigaray's text not only recasts philosophy as feminist reading, but establishes feminist criticism at its most philosophically consequential. Translated with precision and nuance, this text will now alter the field of 'philosophy and feminism' in English-speaking contexts."--Judith Butler

About the Author:

Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. She trained as a psychoanalyst and is now a prolific and influential author, whose work ranges over philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics and social critique.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826477127
• ISBN 13: 9780826477125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192