Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0231070837
ISBN-13 : 9780231070836
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Book Synopsis Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Luce Irigaray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water. According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0231070829
ISBN-13 : 9780231070829
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Book Synopsis Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Luce Irigaray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water. According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 0231070837
ISBN-13 : 9780231070836
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Book Synopsis Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Luce Irigaray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water. According to Irigaray, water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.

Between East and West

Between East and West
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9780231507929
ISBN-13 : 0231507925
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Book Synopsis Between East and West by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Between East and West written by Luce Irigaray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book we see a philosopher well steeped in the Western tradition thinking through ancient Eastern disciplines, meditating on what it means to learn to breathe, and urging us all at the dawn of a new century to rediscover indigenous Asian cultures. Yogic tradition, according to Irigaray, can provide an invaluable means for restoring the vital link between the present and eternity—and for re-envisioning the patriarchal traditions of the West. Western, logocentric rationality tends to abstract the teachings of yoga from its everyday practice—most importantly, from the cultivation of breath. Lacking actual, personal experience with yoga or other Eastern spiritual practices, the Western philosophers who have tried to address Hindu and Buddhist teachings—particularly Schopenhauer—have frequently gone astray. Not so, Luce Irigaray. Incorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world. She looks toward the indigenous, pre-Aryan cultures of India—which, she argues, have maintained an essentially creative ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine. Irigaray's focus on breath in this book is a natural outgrowth of the attention that she has given in previous books to the elements—air, water, and fire. By returning to fundamental human experiences—breathing and the fact of sexual difference—she finds a way out of the endless sociologizing abstractions of much contemporary thought to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization.

Speculum of the Other Woman

Speculum of the Other Woman
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 0801493307
ISBN-13 : 9780801493300
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Book Synopsis Speculum of the Other Woman by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Speculum of the Other Woman written by Luce Irigaray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.

A Companion to Continental Philosophy

A Companion to Continental Philosophy
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 706
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ISBN-10 : 9780631190134
ISBN-13 : 0631190139
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Continental Philosophy by : Simon Critchley

Download or read book A Companion to Continental Philosophy written by Simon Critchley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

Sexes and Genealogies

Sexes and Genealogies
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0231070330
ISBN-13 : 9780231070331
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Book Synopsis Sexes and Genealogies by : Luce Irigaray

Download or read book Sexes and Genealogies written by Luce Irigaray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray is one of France's most versatile feminist critics. Sexes and Genealogies, a collection of lectures delivered throughout Canada and Europe, introduces her writing to a wider American audience. Irigaray's most famous work, Speculum of the Other Woman, prompted her expulsion from the Lacanin Ecole Freudienne because of its searing depiction of Platonic and Freudian representations of women. Now Sexes and Genealogies analyzes sexual difference according to what she terms the double dimension of gender and ideology. Irigaray covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis, and literature, such as: the continued neglect by psychoanalysts of the sexual and gender dimensions of therapy, the urgency of female divinity for contemporary feminist movements, and a reconsideration of women's relation to the market economy. Sexes and Genealogies also includes Irigaray's dazzling reading of the Oresteia, "Body Against Body: In Relation to the Mother," now acknowleged as a feminist classic.