Full Description
Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray's thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.
Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mary C. Rawlinson
I. TIME, SPACE, AND THE UNIVERSAL
In Search for the Mother Through the Looking Glass: On Time, Origins, and Beginnings in Plato and Irigaray
Fanny Söderbäck
Place, Interval: Irigaray and Ronell
Rebecca Hill
Further Speculations: Time and Difference in Speculum de l'autre femme
Anne van Leeuwen
Game Change: Philosophy after Irigaray
Mary C. Rawlinson
II. LANGUAGE, ART, AND WRITING
Irigaray and Kristeva on Anguish in Art
Elaine P. Miller
A Love Letter from Beyond the Grave: Irigaray, Nothingness and La femme n'existe pas
Claire Potter
Wonder and Écriture: Descartes and Irigaray, Writing at Intervals
Perry Zurn
Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom? Luce Irigaray's Linguistic Research in Its Latest Iteration
Gail Schwab
III. SCIENCE, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY
Irigaray and Darwin on Sexual Difference: Some Reflections
Elizabeth Grosz
What Kind of Science? Reading Irigaray with Stengers
Margherita Long
Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound: Refiguring Waves in Audio-Technical Discourse
Tara Rodgers
Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought
Mary Beth Mader
IV. PSYCHOANALYSIS IN PRACTICE
Desire at the Threshold: "Vulvar Logic" and Intimacy between Two
Cheryl Lynch Lawler
Gendering Drives: Amae, Philotes, and the Forgotten Mystery of Female Ancestry
Britt-Marie Schiller
Psychoanalysis and Yoga: The Feminine and the Unconscious between East and West
Sara Beardsworth
List of Contributors
Index
