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1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) |
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SUNY series in gender theory |
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SUNY series in gender theory.
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Thinking difference as different thinking in Luce Irigaray's deconstructive genealogies / Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis -- The question of reading Irigaray / Elizabeth Weed -- Kore: philosophy, sensibility, and the diffraction of light / Dorothea Olkowski -- In the underworld with Irigaray: Kathy Acker's Eurydice / Dianne Chisholm -- Textiles that matter: Irigaray and veils / Anne-Emmanuelle Berger -- Mothers, sisters, and daughters: Luce Irigaray and the female genealogical line in the stories of the Greeks / Gail Schwab -- Antigone and the ethics of kinship / Mary Beth Mader -- Mourning (as) woman: event, catachresis, and "that other face of discourse" / Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis -- Weird Greek sex: rethinking ethics in Irigaray and Foucault / Lynne Huffer -- Autonomy, self-alteration, sexual difference / Stathis Gourgouris -- Hospitality and sexual difference: remembering Homer with Luce Irigaray / Judith Still -- "Raising love up to the word": rewriting god as "other" through Irigarayan style / Laine M. Harrington -- Dynamic potentiality: the body that stands alone / Claire Colebrook -- Sameness, alterity, flesh: Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability / Gayle Salamon -- "Women on the market": on sex, race, and commodification / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- Irigaray's challenge to the fetishistic hegemony of the platonic one and many / Tina Chanter -- Who cares about the Greeks? uses and misuses of tradition in the articulation of difference and plurality / Eleni Varikas -- Conditionalities, exclusions, occlusions / Penelope Deutscher -- The return / Luce Irigaray |
| Summary |
In this definitive reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to "the Greeks," through strategies of deconstructing, demythifying, reconstructing, and remythifying, is not a nostalgic return to the ideality of Hellenocentric antiquity, but rather an affirmatively critical revisiting of this ideality. Her persistent return and affective bond to ancient Greek logos, mythos, and tragedy sheds light on some of the most complex epistemological issues in contemporary theory, such as the workings of criticism, the language of politics and the politics of language, the possibility of social and symbolic transformation, the multiple mediations between metropolitan and postcolonial contexts of theory and practice, the question of the other, and the function of the feminine in Western metaphysics. With a foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a chapter by Irigaray responding to her commentators, this book is an essential text for those in social theory, comparative literature, or classics |
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"This singular volume begins to take account of the enormous influence and range of the work of Luce Irigaray. Taking as a point of departure the key critical writings on Greek philosophy that form the basis of Irigaray's theories of sexual difference, the sexed body, and writing, this anthology brings Irigaray's Greek legacy into the present to consider feminist philosophy as a critical rereading of philosophy's foundations. Here we see that the departures from that important tradition are as important as the debts we owe. Once again we see that to read Irigaray means learning to read in both directions at once. As well, we see in vivid terms that Irigaray's work poses an enormous challenge for rethinking relations of eros and love, recrafting philosophy through new textual and corporeal practices, both embodied and critical. The volume recognizes Irigaray as a feminist philosopher whose work has itself produced an impressive legacy of diverse and vital criticism among major contemporary thinkers. This is an invaluable text for those who wish to understand just how radically feminist thought intervenes in questions of history, love, embodiment, and critical readings in philosophy."--Judith Butler, author of Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? |
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"This book will captivate feminist scholars and classicists alike, presenting the complex panorama of an interdisciplinary study in which the primacy of the ̀text' (be it Irigaray's or that of the ancient tradition) is at the same time confirmed and trespassed."--Adriana Cavarero, author of Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Irigaray, Luce
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| SUBJECT |
Irigaray, Luce fast |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Feminist theory.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Feminist theory
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Filosofer -- Frankrike -- 1900-talet.
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Filosofi -- Grekland -- antiken.
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Mytologi.
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Feministisk teori.
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Könsolikheter.
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Philosophers -- France -- 20th century.
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Philosophy -- Greece -- classical antiquity.
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Mythology.
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Feminist theory.
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Sex differences.
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Feministisk teori.
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Antikens filosofi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tzelepis, Elena
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Athanasiou, Athena
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| ISBN |
9781441658555 |
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1441658556 |
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9781438431017 |
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1438431015 |
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