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Record Nr.

UNINA9910645888403321

Autore

Jones Emma R.

Titolo

Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray / / by Emma R. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031193057

9783031193040

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages)

Disciplina

194

111

Soggetti

Feminism

Feminist theory

Continental philosophy

Social sciences - Philosophy

Psychoanalysis

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Continental Philosophy

Social Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Being and Sexuate Difference -- 2. Relation and RefusaL: Irigaray and Lacan -- 3. Hearing Silence, Speaking Language: Irigaray and Heidegger -- 4. The Enunciation of Place: Dialogues -- 5. Speaking at the Limit: Ethics, Ontology, Language -- 6. Love and (Re) Birth at the Limit.

Sommario/riassunto

Many scholars have struggled with Irigaray’s focus on sexuate difference, in particular with her claim that it is “ontological,” wondering if this implies a problematically naïve or essentialist account of sexuate difference. As a result, the ethical vision which Irigaray elaborates has not been taken up in a robust way in the fields of philosophy, feminism, or psychoanalysis. By tracing the notion of relation throughout Irigaray’s work, this book identifies a rigorous philosophical continuity between the three self-identified “phases” in



Irigaray’s thought (despite some critics’ concerns that there is a discontinuity between these phases) and clarifies the relational ontology that underlies Irigaray’s conceptualization of sexuate difference – one that always already implies an ethical project. The text demonstrates that an understanding of Irigaray’s Heideggerian inheritance – especially prominent in her later texts – is essential to grasping the sense of the idea that sexuate difference is ontological – it concerns Being, rather than beings. This book further develops potential applications of this ontological notion of a “relational limit” for the fields of philosophy, feminism, and psychotherapy.