The Irreducible Other, The Second Sex Meets This Sex Which is Not One
Lesley Caust
Broschiertes Buch

The Irreducible Other, The Second Sex Meets This Sex Which is Not One

Women, subjectivity, and ethics in Beauvoir and Irigaray

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This book suggests that Beauvoir and Irigaray can find a meeting place. Conversation is possible. Irigaray challenges Beauvoir's ontology and ethics. This involves a questioning of epistemology and metaphysics as well. Yet Beauvoir and Irigaray sought to include women as subjects. Beauvoir was on the verge of a new ontology, alluded to sexed subjectivity but reproduced sexual sameness. Irigaray posits a new ontology, considers the debt to the mother, sexuate rights and a feminine symbolic and divine. But their philosophies seem to be incommensurate. The men in their lives provide a partial con...