Engaging the World: Thinking after Irigaray

by Mary C. Rawlinson (Editor)

Overview

Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438460277
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Series:	SUNY series in Gender Theory
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mary C. Rawlinson is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman and (with Sabrina L. Hom and Serene J. Khader) of Thinking with Irigaray, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Mary C. Rawlinson 1

I Time, Space, and the Universal

In Search for the Mother Through the Looking Glass: On Time, Origins, and Beginnings in Plato and Irigaray Fanny Söderbäck 11

Place, Interval: Irigaray and Ronell Rebecca Hill 39

Further Speculations: Time and Difference in Speculum de I'autre femme Anne van Leeuwen 51

Game Change: Philosophy after Irigaray Mary C. Rawlinson 65

II Language, Art, and Writing

Irigaray and Kristeva on Anguish in Art Elaine P. Miller 79

A Love Letter from Beyond the Grave: Irigaray, Nothingness and La femme n'existe pas Claire Putter 91

Wonder and Écriture: Descartes and Irigaray, Writing at Intervals Perry Zurn 115

Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom? Luce Irigaray's Linguistic Research in Its Latest Iteration Gail Schwab 135

III Science, Culture, and Technology

Irigaray and Darwin on Sexual Difference: Some Reflections Elizabeth Grosz 157

What Kind of Science? Reading Irigaray with Stengers Margherita Long 173

Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound: Refiguring Waves in Audio-Technical Discourse Tara Rodgers 195

Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought Mary Beth Mader 215

IV Psychoanalysis in Practice

Desire at the Threshold: "Vulvar Logic" and Intimacy between Two Cheryl Lynch Lawler 233

Gendering Drives: Amae, Philotes, and the Forgotten Mystery of Female Ancestry Britt-Marie Schiller 265

Psychoanalysis and Yoga: The Feminine and the Unconscious between East and West Sara Beardsworth 281

List of Contributors 297

Index 301

Editorial Reviews

"The scholars' engagement with Irigaray's work, as described in this book, is a testament to her importance today, and in illustrating the continuing impact of Irigaray's work, this book makes a significant contribution to scholarship in contemporary feminist philosophy." — hypatia

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