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A Politics of Impossible Difference : The Later Work of Luce Irigaray / Penelope Deutscher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2002Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501723735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42/01 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .D4897 2002
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sexual Difference as a Basis of Equality -- 2. Irigaray on Language -- 3. Rethinking the Politics of Recognition -- 4. Irigarayan Performativity -- 5. Sexuate Genre -- 6. Anticipating Sexual Difference -- 7. Interrogating an Unasked Question -- 8. The Impossible Friend. -- 9. Sexed Discourse and the Language of the Philosophers -- 10. Effacement Redoubled? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: The influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more importance to sexual difference than to race and multiculturalism. Penelope Deutscher's eagerly awaited book, the first to focus on the scholar's controversial later works, addresses this charge. Through a learned critique of these lesser-known writings, the book examines Irigaray's claim that the politics of feminism and multiculturalism are intrinsically linked. The volume also serves as a clear and comprehensive introduction to her entire corpus.In her recent works, Irigaray promotes sexual difference as the philosophical basis for legal, political, and linguistic reform. Deutscher explores this approach and in particular Irigaray's view that the very notion of difference is culturally "impossible." Taking this concept of impossibility into consideration, Deutscher evaluates Irigaray's contributions to contemporary debates about the politics of identity, recognition, diversity, and multiculturalism. In a balanced discussion, she considers the philosopher's work from the perspective of fellow critics including Michéle Le Doeuff, Drucilla Cornell, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Charles Taylor.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sexual Difference as a Basis of Equality -- 2. Irigaray on Language -- 3. Rethinking the Politics of Recognition -- 4. Irigarayan Performativity -- 5. Sexuate Genre -- 6. Anticipating Sexual Difference -- 7. Interrogating an Unasked Question -- 8. The Impossible Friend. -- 9. Sexed Discourse and the Language of the Philosophers -- 10. Effacement Redoubled? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

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The influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more importance to sexual difference than to race and multiculturalism. Penelope Deutscher's eagerly awaited book, the first to focus on the scholar's controversial later works, addresses this charge. Through a learned critique of these lesser-known writings, the book examines Irigaray's claim that the politics of feminism and multiculturalism are intrinsically linked. The volume also serves as a clear and comprehensive introduction to her entire corpus.In her recent works, Irigaray promotes sexual difference as the philosophical basis for legal, political, and linguistic reform. Deutscher explores this approach and in particular Irigaray's view that the very notion of difference is culturally "impossible." Taking this concept of impossibility into consideration, Deutscher evaluates Irigaray's contributions to contemporary debates about the politics of identity, recognition, diversity, and multiculturalism. In a balanced discussion, she considers the philosopher's work from the perspective of fellow critics including Michéle Le Doeuff, Drucilla Cornell, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Charles Taylor.

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In English.

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