Differences : rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray / edited by Emily Parker and Anne van Leeuwen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Emily, editor.

van Leeuwen, Anne, editor.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy

Studies In Feminist Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Irigaray, Luce.

Feminist theory.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Simone De Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the reception of their thought. What does it mean to return to Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in light of questions and problems of contemporary feminism, including intersectional and queer criticisms of their projects? How should we now take up, amplify, and surpass the horizons opened by their projects? Seeking answers to these questions, the essays in this volume return to Beauvoir and Irigaray to find what the two philosophers share. And as the authors make clear, the richness of Beauvoir and Irigaray's philosophies are only just beginning to be read properly in relation to each other. The first section of this volume places Beauvoir and Irigaray in critical dialogue, exploring the place of the material and the corporeal in Beauvoir's thought and, in doing so, reading Beauvoir in a framework that goes beyond a theory of gender and the humanism of phenomenology. The essays in the second section of the volume take up the challenge of articulating points of dialogue between the two focal philosophers in logic, ethics, and politics. Combined, these essays resituate Beauvoir and Irigaray's work both historically and in light of contemporary demands. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Rereading Beauvoir

1 Material Life: Bergsonian Tendencies in Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy / Alia Al-Saji Al-Saji, Alia 21

2 Dead Camp: Beauvoir on the Life and Death of Femininity (Reading The Second Sex with Butler, Brown, and Wilson) / Penelope Deutscher Deutscher, Penelope 54

3 Toward a "New and Possible Meeting": Ambiguity as Difference / Emily Anne Parker Parker, Emily Anne 85

4 We Have Always Been Materialists: Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Specter of Materialism / Anne van Leeuwen Leeuwen, Anne van 114

Part II Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray

5 Ambiguity and Difference: Two Feminist Ethics of the Present / Sara Heinämaa Heinämaa, Sara 137

6 Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Ambiguities of Desire / Gail Weiss Weiss, Gail 177

7 The Question of the Subject and the Matter of Violence / Debra Bergoffen Bergoffen, Debra 196

8 Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Philosophy / Dorothea E. Olkowski Olkowski, Dorothea E. 216.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Differences.

ISBN:

9780190275594

9780190275600

019027560X

0190275596

OCLC:

994220128

Publisher Number:

99974564599