Alison Stone

Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a novel interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture, showing how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender, through rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is a sustained attempt to connect feminist conceptions of embodiment to German idealist and Romantic accounts of nature. Not merely an interpretation of Irigaray, this book also presents an original feminist perspective on nature and the body. It will encourage debate on the relations between sexual difference, essentialism, and embodiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511218088
• Artikelnr.: 38183893

Autorenporträt

Alison Stone has published six full-length collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Luce Irigaray and the nature of sexual difference
1. Re-reading Irigaray: realism and sexual difference
2. Judith Butler's challenge to Irigaray
3. Nature, sexual duality, and bodily multiplicity
4. Irigaray and Hölderlin on the relation between nature and culture
5. Irigaray and Hegel on the relation between family and state
6. From sexual difference to self-differentiating nature
Conclusion: reconciling duality and multiplicity.