In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff: Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship

by Pamela Sue Anderson (Editor), Michele Le Doeuff (Editor)

Overview

The work of Michèle Le Dœuff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be. Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple, a hierarchy of knowledge and paternalism, Le Dœuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship. The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted and explored, and show how openness and generosity can be the starting point of truly rigorous thinking.

Introduced and curated by the late philosopher, Pamela Sue Anderson, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Dœuff explores themes like contemporary feminism, joy in philosophy, memory, the significance of friendship to thinking and a key Le Dœuffian concept, the imaginary. Le Dœuff's interlocutors, including Penelope Deutscher, Elizabeth Fallaize and Meenda Dhanda, are some of the most significant thinkers in the fields of feminism and continental thought and provide insights and ways into considering philosophy as a profoundly dialogical exercise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350135017
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/16/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Michèle Le Dœuff is a French feminist philosopher who is best known for the seminal work, The Philosophical Imaginary (1990), as well as Hipparchia's Choice (2006), and The Sex of Knowing (2003).

Pamela Sue Anderson was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. She specialised in philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy and continental thought.
Pamela Sue Anderson is Professor of Philosophy of Religion in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK.
Michèle Le Dœuff is a Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, and has been Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface by Kate Kirkpatrick
Introduction by Pamela Sue Anderson

1. 'On Feminist Discourse', Tetsuji Yamamoto in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
2. 'On The Second Sex', Catherine Rodgers in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
3. 'On Style and Experience', Ulrika Bjork in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
4. 'On a Twentieth-century French Woman Philosopher', Penelope Deutscher in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
5. 'Bringing us into Twenty-First Century Feminism with Joy and Wit', Pamela Sue Anderson and Meena Dhanda with Michèle Le Doeuff
6. Women in dialogue and in solitude
7. 'A Bonny Dialogue – for French Studies', Elizabeth Fallaize in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
8. 'A Jolly Panel Discussion in Nottingham', Pamela Sue Anderson, Suzanne Dow, Alison Martin and Mark Robson in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
9. 'On the Sex of Philosophy', Aliocha Wald Lasowski in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
10. 'Highly Singular Memories of '68, etc.', Michèle Le Doeuff 'in dialogue' with her past
11. 'Occasionally the Unforeseen Happens' by Michèle Le Doeuff
12. 'In Joyful Dialogue with Spinoza and Others: Le Doeuff, Deleuze and the Ethics' by Pamela Sue Anderson
13. 'Towards A New Philosophical Imaginary' by Michèle Le Doeuff

Editorial Reviews

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff sparkles on the future possibilities of feminist philosophy. Le Doeuff's style is delightful: witty, erudite and deflating of all pomposity. This is philosophical conversation at its most historically imaginative, political, and inclusive. A triumph of feminist thought as intellectual friendship's equality.” —Lorna Hutson, FBA, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK

“This fascinating collection gives a rare insight into how the philosophical work of various marginalized groups has been both autonomous yet responsive to the work of others. There is a vast amount to learn here, not just about how to philosophize at the margins, but about how to philosophize.” —A.W. Moore, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

From the Publisher