Engaging the World : Thinking after Irigaray

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawlinson, Mary C.

Contributor:

Rawlinson, Mary C, Contributor.

Rawlinson, Mary C, Editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Gender Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irigaray, Luce.

Feminist theory.

Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Irigaray, Luce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; I: Time, Space, and the Universal; In Search for the Mother through the Looking Glass; Returning to the Cave-Womb: "Plato'S Hystera"; The Substitution of Origins for Beginnings; Mother Lost, Time Lost: Speculum De L'Autre Femme; Revisiting Origins and Beginnings: Through the Looking Glass; Time of Death and the Death of Time; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Place, Interval; How Far Should a Girl Go on a First Date?; Woman: The Placeless Place; Maternal Cartographies; Place, Interval; Notes; References; Further Speculations; Introduction

Returning to LacanReturning to Irigaray; Conclusion; Notes; References; Game Change; Woman under Man; Specific Universals; Livable Futures; Notes; References; II: Language, Art, and Writing; Irigaray and Kristeva on Anguish in Art; Notes; References; A Love Letter from Beyond the Grave; Introduction; A Love Letter; Reduction to the Same-Cosi Fan Tutte- as They All Do; Irigaray, Freud, and the Letter; Woman as Not-All; Irigaray, Freud, and Negation; Irigaray, Hardy, and Defacement; Conclusion: A Most Unethical Love Letter; Notes; References; Wonder and Écriture; Cartesian Wonder

Irigaray on Cartesian WonderCritiquing Irigaray on Cartesian Wonder; Wonder and Cartesian Écriture; Wonder and Irigarayan Écriture; Notes; References; Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom?; Irigaray'S Linguistic Research: the Seventies through the Nineties; Mothers and Daughters and Mothers and Sons; Taking the Research to the Elementary and the Junior-High Classroom; Notes; References; III: Science, Culture, and Technology; Irigaray and Darwin on Sexual Difference; Irigaray and the Concept of Sexual Difference; Another Nature; Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection

NotesReferences; What Kind of Science?; Entropy Versus Evolution in Order out of Chaos: Irigaray'S Thermodynamics; Dissipative Systems and the Female Libido; Stengers and the Scientific Method; Beginning to Think; the Cultivation of Flesh; Conclusion: on Barbara Mcclintock and the Problem of Ecofeminism; Notes; References; Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound; Sound Waves as Fluid Disturbances and Maritime Frontiers; Objective Perspectives, Maritime Adventures, and the Production of a Sonic Epistemology; Refiguring Sound Waves through Allegories of Interconnection; Acknowledgments

ReferencesLuce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought; Introduction; Kinship and Sexed Kind: Irigaray and Lévi-Strauss; the Kantian Transition: Geschlect; Exogamies and Endogamies; Alliance and Filiation: Deleuze and Irigaray; Notes; References; IV: Psychoanalysis in Practice; Desire at the Threshold; Introduction; Deconstructing the Sacrificial Order; Fecund Thirdness-A True Intersubjective Dialectic; toward a "Double Desire": Irigaray with Loewald; Meanderings in the Virgin Wilderness; From Flesh to Words; Conclusion; Notes; References; Gendering Drives; Freud'S Drive Theories

Metapsychology and the Split Drive

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781438460291

1438460295