Luce Irigaray and the philosophy of sexual difference / Alison Stone.

By:

Stone, Alison, 1972- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xii, 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521862701
9780521862707

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.4201 22

LOC classification:

HQ1190 .S77 2006

Contents:

Introduction : Luce Irigaray and the nature of sexual difference -- 1. Rereading Irigaray : realism and sexual difference -- 2. Judith Butler's challenge to Irigaray -- 3. Nature, sexual duality, and bodily multiplicity -- 4. Irigaray and Holderlin on the relation between nature and culture -- 5. Irigaray and Hegel on the relation between family and state -- 6. From sexual difference to self-differentiating nature -- Conclusion : reconciling duality and multiplicity.

Review: "This book offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural. Providing a new interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray, Alison Stone defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture. She also shows how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender by rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is the first sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German Idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and the body. It will encourage debate on the relations among sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

"This book offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural. Providing a new interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray, Alison Stone defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture. She also shows how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender by rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is the first sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German Idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and the body. It will encourage debate on the relations among sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment."--BOOK JACKET.

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