Thinking life with Luce Irigaray : language, origin, art, love

Summary: "Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in women's and gender studies, stands in contrast to philosophy's traditional grounding in death, exemplified in the work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Schopenhauer. The contributors to Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray consider Irigaray's criticisms of the traditional Western philosophy of death, including its either-or dualisms and binary logic, as well as some of Irigaray's "solutions" for cultivating life. The book is comprehensive in its analyses of Irigaray's relationship to classical and contemporary philosophers, writers, and artists, and produces extremely fruitful intersections between Irigaray and figures as diverse as Homer and Plato; Alexis Wright, the First-Nations novelist of Australia; and twentieth-century French philosophers like Sartre, Badiou, Deleuze, and Guattari. It also develops Irigaray's relationship to the arts, with essays on theater, poetry, architecture, sculpture, and film."--Back cover

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ISBN: 9781438477824
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 370 pages)
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]

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General Note:	CatMonthString.january.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I: Thinking life with Luce Irigaray. Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray : language, origin, art, love / Gail M. Schwab -- How could we achieve women's liberation? / Luce Irigaray -- Part II: Life in and through nature, desire, freedom, and love. The re-enchanted garden : participatory sentience and becoming-subject in "Third Space" / Cheryl Lynch-Lawler -- Thinking life through the early Greeks / Kristin Sampson -- Betwen her and her : place and relations betwen women in Irigaray and Wright / Rebecca Hill -- Nature, culture, and sexuate difference in Luce Irigaray's pluralist model of embodied life / Erla Karlsdottir, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir -- Between Heidegger's poetic thinking and Deleuzian affect : Irigaray's the war of love / Ellen Mortensen -- Time for love : Plato and Irigaray on erotic relations / Fanny S�oderb�ack -- Life-giving sex versus mere animal existence : Irigaray's and Badiou's paradoxically chiasmatic conceptions of "woman" and sexual pleasure / Louise Burchill -- Freedom, desire, and the other : reading Sartre with Irigaray / Gail M. Schwab -- Daughters, difference, and Irigaray's economy of desire / Phyllis H. Kaminski -- Part III: Revitalizing history, philosophy. pedagogy, and the arts. The age of the spirit : Irigaray apocalypse, and the Trinitarian view of history / Emily A. Holmes -- Tragedy : an Irigarayan approach / Alison Stone -- The ethics of elemental passions in Eug�ene Guillevic and Luce Irigaray / Eva Maria Korsisaari -- Deconstruction, defiguration, disconnection : on reading Speculum de l'autre femme with Derrida and Lacan / Anne van Leeuwen -- Dewey and Irigaray on education and democracy : the classroom, the ineffable, and recgonition / Tomoka Toraiaw -- Discursive desire and student imaginary / Karen Schiler -- Building sexuate architectures of sustainability / Peg Rawes -- Habitas for desire : sculptural gestures toward sexual living / Britt-Marie Schiller -- The feminist distance : space in Luce Irigaray and Jane Campion's the Piano.
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