Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, IrigarayEcstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition is a study in critical postmodern social theory. By engaging a dialogue with Heidegger, Kristeva, and Irigaray, it offers unique insights into Heidegger's heroic embrace of the manly ethos of National Socialism. Against certain poststructuralist feminist tendencies to throw the baby of intentionality out with the bath water of voluntarism, Huntington interweaves elements of Kristevan and Heideggerian thought in order to reconstruct a linguistically embedded, existentially and affectively rich, dialectical model of willed self-regulation. Pressing Heideggerian ontology into the service of a viable social theory, she argues that this ontology accounts for the utopian impulse in Irigaray's search for a critical poetic reenchantment of the lifeworld and supplies Irigaray with the philosophical foundation for a model of ethical recognition based upon asymmetrical reciprocity. |
Contents
Heidegger and Kristeva Residues of Heroic Agency and Stoic Abstraction in Being and Time | 3 |
Heidegger Irigaray and the Masculine Ethos of National Socialism Or How to Tame the Feminine | 33 |
Agency Affect and the Postmodern Subject Overcoming the Logic of Sacrifice | 77 |
A Critical Mimetic Recovery of Origins Reading Heidegger with Irigaray and Cornell | 119 |
Gelassenheit Heideggers Reluctant Utopia | 159 |
Heideggers Apolitical Nostalgia for Immediacy | 205 |
Postmodern MetaUtopia or Solidarity? Race Gender and Reiterative Universalism | 233 |
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