Engaging with Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought

by Carolyn Burke, Naomi Schor, Margaret Whitford

Overview

Engaging with Irigaray is the first collection of essays that attempts to go beyond the question of essentialism in order to provide a full critical assessment of Irigaray's contribution to a number of fields, notably philosophy. By reconsidering Irigaray's writings in the field of European thought and politics in which she positions herself, the authors of these essays—among them 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.

This collection of essays will be invaluable to readers interested both in continental feminism and the intellectual engagement of an international group of scholars grappling with the issues of gender difference, sexuality, and women's politics between women and with men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231078979
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/24/1994
Series:	Gender and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	0.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Previous Engagements: The Receptions of Irigaray, by Naomi Schor
Reading Irigaray in the Nineties, by Margaret Whitford
Part 1: Beyond Essentialism
Irigaray, by Carolyn Burke
This Essentialism Which Is Not One: Coming to Grips with Irigaray, by Naomi Schora
The Question of Style, by Elizabeth Weed
Of Bugs and Women: Irigaray and Deleuze on the Becoming-Woman, by Rosi Braidott
Part 2: Irigaray and/in Philosophy
Bodies That Matter, by Judith Butler
Luce Irigaray Versus the Utopia of the Neutral Sex, by Jean-Joseph Goux
Irigaray Reading Heidegger, by Joanna Hodge
Woman's Untruth and le féminin: Reading Luce Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger, by Ellen Mortensen
The Burning Glass: Paradoxes of Feminist Revelation in Speculum, by Philippa Berry
Part 3: Toward a New Symbolic Order
Translation Modified: Irigaray in English, by Carolyn Burke
Irigaray's Hysteria, by Dianne Chisholm
Back in Analysis: How to Do Things with Irigaray, by Elizabeth Hirsh
Female Genealogies, by Luisa Muraro
The Hetero and the Homo: The Sexual Ethics of Luce Irigaray, by Elizabeth Grosz
Mother's Body, Father's Tongue: Mediation and the Symbolic Order, by Gail M. Schwab
Irigaray, Utopia, and the Death Drive, by Margaret Whitford
Bibliography: Luce Irigaray
Contributors' Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

Essays on the work of French feminist writer and philosopher Luce Irigaray. Contributors discuss reading Irigaray in the Nineties, Irigaray versus the utopia of the neutral sex, reading Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger, paradoxes of feminist revelation in Speculum, and Irigaray's sexual ethics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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