Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray

Emma R. Jones (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 166 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-19304-0 (ISBN)

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Many scholars have struggled with Irigaray's focus on sexuate difference, in particular with her claim that it is "ontological," wondering if this implies a problematically naïve or essentialist account of sexuate difference. As a result, the ethical vision which Irigaray elaborates has not been taken up in a robust way in the fields of philosophy, feminism, or psychoanalysis.
By tracing the notion of relation throughout Irigaray's work, this book identifies a rigorous philosophical continuity between the three self-identified "phases" in Irigaray's thought (despite some critics' concerns that there is a discontinuity between these phases) and clarifies the relational ontology that underlies Irigaray's conceptualization of sexuate difference - one that always already implies an ethical project.
The text demonstrates that an understanding of Irigaray's Heideggerian inheritance - especially prominent in her later texts - is essential to grasping the sense of the idea that sexuate difference is ontological - it concerns Being, rather than beings. This book further develops potential applications of this ontological notion of a "relational limit" for the fields of philosophy, feminism, and psychotherapy.

Emma R. Jones studied Philosophy and Literature at New School University in New York City before earning her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oregon in 2011, with concentrations including Feminist Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and Psychoanalytic theory. Dr. Jones also earned a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral studies in 2018. She is currently a practicing psychotherapist and author in the San Francisco Bay Area.

1. Introduction: Being and Sexuate Difference.- 2. Relation and RefusaL: Irigaray and Lacan.- 3. Hearing Silence, Speaking Language: Irigaray and Heidegger.- 4. The Enunciation of Place: Dialogues.- 5. Speaking at the Limit: Ethics, Ontology, Language.- 6. Love and (Re) Birth at the Limit.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	XI, 166 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Heidegger • Lacan • Luce Irigaray • Ontology • Sexuate difference
ISBN-10	3-031-19304-0 / 3031193040
ISBN-13	978-3-031-19304-0 / 9783031193040
Zustand	Neuware