Irigaray and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Laura Roberts

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Irigaray and Politics

A Critical Introduction

Laura Roberts

In the series Thinking Politics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474422833

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Positions Luce Irigaray as one of the most important and radical political thinkers alive today

Provides an overview of Irigaray’s broader psychoanalytic and philosophical contexts that have not as yet been acknowledged, giving important context for engaging with her more recent writings
Situates Luce Irigaray as a political philosopher, helping us to fully appreciate her political project and her challenge to western modernity and rationality
Connects the political, ethical and ontological aspects of Irigaray’s, bringing the concrete political features of Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference to the fore
Engages with the intersections of race, class and coloniality in Irigaray’s work and connects it to decolonial thinkers more broadly

Bringing together Luce Irigaray’s early psychoanalytically orientated writings with her more recent and more explicitly political writings, Irigaray and Politics weaves together the ontological, political and ethical dimensions of Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference in imaginative ways.

Laura Roberts argues that Irigaray’s philosophical–political project must be read as a critique of constructions of western modernity and rationality. When appreciated in this way, it becomes clear how Irigaray’s thought makes profound interventions into contemporary political movements and decolonial thought – themes that have never been covered before in Irigaray scholarship. This enables readers to recognise that the question of sexual difference in Irigaray’s philosophy is concerned not only with refiguring politics and political action, but with the foundational structures that govern existence itself.

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Beyond Freud and Lacan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Feminine Imaginaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3 Genealogies and Subjectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
4 Irigaray’s Dialectics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
5 Luce Irigaray with Gayatri Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Politics

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474422833