Conversations / Luce Irigaray with Stephen Pluhacek ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irigaray, Luce.

Contributor:

Pluháček, Stephen.

Standardized Title:

Interviews. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce--Interviews.

Irigaray, Luce.

Feminist theory.

Critical theory.

Philosophy, European.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dialogue is a privileged method in Luce Irigaray's work. Covering all the key topics that have been central to her work in the last thirty years, this book offers an essential insight into Irigaray's career as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers. Topics and theorists approached include: philosophy, in particular Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze; language as information, communication-between and artistic expression; universality and difference; natural and cultural identities; motherhood and gendered subjectivities; cultivation of desire and love; building houses

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Thinking Life as Relation; 'Towards a Wisdom of Love'; 'Oneness' and 'Being-Two' in the Practice and Culture of Yoga; Being-Two in Architectural Perspective; Becoming Woman, Each One and Together; A Feminine Figure in Christian Tradition; The Invisible Interlacing Between Fleshes; Sexuate Identities as Global Beings Questioning Western Logic; New Challenges in Education; Postscript: The Long Path Towards Being a Woman; Contributors; Bibliography of Works by Luce Irigaray; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9786612876875

9781282876873

1282876872

9781441193421

1441193421

OCLC:

676699580