
A Politics of Impossible Difference
The Later Work of Luce Irigaray
Penelope Deutscher(Author)
Cornell University Press
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Published on 6. August 2018
240 pages
978-1-5017-2373-5 (ISBN)
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The influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more importance to sexual difference than to race and multiculturalism. Penelope Deutscher's eagerly awaited book, the first to focus on the scholar's controversial later works, addresses this charge. Through a learned critique of these lesser-known writings, the book examines Irigaray's claim that the politics of feminism and multiculturalism are intrinsically linked. The volume also serves as a clear and comprehensive introduction to her entire corpus.In her recent works, Irigaray promotes sexual difference as the philosophical basis for legal, political, and linguistic reform. Deutscher explores this approach and in particular Irigaray's view that the very notion of difference is culturally "impossible." Taking this concept of impossibility into consideration, Deutscher evaluates Irigaray's contributions to contemporary debates about the politics of identity, recognition, diversity, and multiculturalism. In a balanced discussion, she considers the philosopher's work from the perspective of fellow critics including Michéle Le Doeuff, Drucilla Cornell, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Charles Taylor.
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DeutscherPenelope:
Penelope Deutscher is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is author of Yielding Gender: Deconstruction, Feminism, and the History of Philosophy and coeditor of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, also from Cornell.
Penelope Deutscher is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is author of Yielding Gender: Deconstruction, Feminism, and the History of Philosophy and coeditor of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, also from Cornell.
Content
- Cover
- A Politics of Impossible Difference
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Sexual Difference as a Basis of Equality: An Introduction to Irigarayan Politics
- 2. Irigaray on Language: From the Speech of Dementia to the Problem of Sexual Indifference
- 3. Rethinking the Politics of Recognition: The Declaration of Irigarayan Sexuate Rights
- 4. Irigarayan Performativity: Is This a Question of Can Saying It Make It So?
- 5. Sexuate Genre: Ethics and Politics for Improper Selves
- 6. Anticipating Sexual Difference: Mediation, Love, and Divinity
- 7. Interrogating an Unasked Question: Is There Sexual Difference?
- 8. The Impossible Friend: Traversing the Heterosocial, the Homosocial, and the Successes of Failure
- 9. Sexed Discourse and the Language of the Philosophers: To Be Two
- 10. Effacement Redoubled? Between East and West
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
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