Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031193040)

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 na?e 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.


Author: Emma R. Jones
ISBN-10: 3031193040
ISBN-13: 9783031193040
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d