Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche / Edition 1

by Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

Overview

Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water.

According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231070836
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/08/1991
Series:	European Perspectives S
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Luce Irigaray (PhD, Linguistics, Philosophy, University of Paris VII, certification, Ecole Freudienne de Paris) is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Many of her works have been translated into English, including most notably An Ethics of Sexual Difference (Cornell, 1993), Between East and West (Columbia, 2002), Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Columbia, 1991), Sexes and Genealogies (Columbia, 1993), Speculum of the Other Woman (Cornell, 1985), and This Sex Which Is Not One (Cornell, 1985).

Editorial Reviews

A major new phase in Irigaray´s continuing archaeology of the feminine in Western civilization. . . .Marine Lover constitutes her most powerful and sustained achievement since Speculum.

Naomi Schor

Published in France in 1980 as Amante marine (Les Editions de Minuit), Marine lover is the first in a trilogy in which Irigary links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. She undertakes to interrogate Nietzsche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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