Desire Beyond Identity : Irigaray and the Ethics of Embodiment / Wesley N. Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Wesley N., author.

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory.

SUNY Series in Gender Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Irigaray, Luce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]

Summary:

Critically adapts the notion of desire in Luce Irigaray's philosophy to rethink the role of embodiment in sociopolitical and philosophical discourses today.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Desire beyond Identity

Identity, Irigaray, and the Question of Desire

Desire and Identity

Desire and the Question of Sexuate Difference

Desire and Method: The Critic and the Theorist

Structure and an Outline of the Book

Receiving and Reciprocating with Irigaray

Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Desire: Toward a Morphology of Lips

The Ethics of Desire: Lacan, Levinas, and Sexual Difference

Lacan and Sexual Difference

Irigaray on the Problem of Sexual Difference

Selfsameness and the Problem of One: Ethics and Prediscursive Relation in Levinas and Irigaray

The Materiality and Alterity of Desire

Matter of Alterity and the Alterity of Matter in Sexual Difference

Lips: A Story of Sexuate Desire

Beyond the Singularity of Desire: The Problem of One and the Promise of At Least Two

This Self Which Is Not One: Desire, Becoming, and Politics

Conclusion: Desiring and Becoming Differently

Chapter 2. The "Matter" of Lips: Incarnating the Transcendence of Desire

A Theology of Lips: From Salvation to Incarnation

Wounding, Penetration, and the Remaking of Immanence and Transcendence through an Othered Desire

Crossing Lips: Salvation beyond a Wounded Desire

The Space-Time of Incarnate Lips

Becoming and Dwelling, the Space-Time of Lips

Chapter 3. Queer Lips, Queer Wombs, and the Temporality of Desire

Foucault and the Foundations of Queer Performativity: Discourse and the Possibility of Subjectivity

Queer Performativity in the Work of Muñoz

Butler and Irigaray: The Prediscursive Materiality of Irigaray's Lips

Queer Lips: A Materiality and Alterity beyond Sexuality

Agency, Ethics, and Disidentification: Disidentification and the Lips as an Embodied Praxis of Relational Becoming

Lips, Wombs, and the Revolutionary Time of Queer Freedom.

Chapter 4. Decolonizing Desire: Reading Spivak's Postcolonial Echo and the Problem of Resistance

The Double Bind and Catachresis in Spivak's Echo

Catachresis as Resistance

Coloniality, Phallocentrism, and the Question of Ontology

The Imperialism of Ontology

Becoming beyond Lack: Decolonizing Ontology

The Subconscious and Unintentional Response: Reimagining Resistance through a Decolonized Ontology of Desire

Chapter 5. Desire beyond (Non)Being: Toward a Black Feminist Labial Logic

Sexual Difference and the Limits of Desire

Eros and the Politics of Flesh

The Visibility of the Other: Psychoanalysis, Race, and the Question of Presence

Afropessimism and Psychoanalysis: The Ethics and Politics of Ontology

Rethinking Pessimism as Desire

Survival: Desire and Living beyond Hope

Touching Elsewhere: The Racialization of Mat(t)er and Rethinking Desire between Lips

Reimagining Sense Perception in the Becoming of Self and Other

The Racialization of Matter

From Visible Matter to Touching in Shadows

An Ethics of Black Lips: Touching in Shadows and the Desire of the Unthought

Chapter 6. Horizons of Touch: Desire and a Reimagined Anthropos

Decapitating Subjects: From Self/Other to Same/Other

Thinking Materiality of Alterity beyond Sameness: The Sensible Transcendental

Irigaray, Deleuze, and Antihumanism

Sexual Difference and Nomadic Subjectivity

The Virtuality of Matter

Becoming Undone: Toward an Incorporeal Materiality

The Mattering of Desire

Rethinking Materiality through Touch

The Horizon of Touch: Rethinking Sexual Difference and New Materialism

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798855801460

OCLC:

1511110388