Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions - Brossura

Canters, Hanneke; Jantzen, Grace M.

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ISBN 10: 0719063817 ISBN 13: 9780719063817

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Forever Fluid is a rich feast of literary and philosophical insight. It provides the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray's poetic text, Elemental Passions, setting it within its context within continental thought. It explores Irigaray's images and intentions, developing the gender drama that takes place within her book, and draws the reader into the conversation in the text between 'I-woman' and 'you-man'.

But the book is also much more than this, as it uses the exploration of sexual difference as a means to challenge the system of binary logic which has pervaded western thought since Aristotle. It develops the exciting idea of a fluid logic which can move beyond oppositions to multiple subjects and creativity of thought and action. While challenging Irigaray's refusal to move beyond sexual difference, the book shows how her representation of sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds.

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L'autore:

Hanneke Canters studied at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, King College London and the University of Sunderland. She was awarded her Ph.D. in December 2000 and died before completion of the book

Grace M. Jantzen is Research Professor of Religion, Culture and Gender at the University of Manchester

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0719063817
• ISBN 13: 9780719063817
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 165