Sexuate difference, ontological difference: Between Irigaray and Heidegger.
Animating Luce Irigaray’s oeuvre are two indissociable projects: the disruption of Western metaphysics and the thinking of sexual difference. The intersection of these two projects implies that any attempt to think through the meaning and significance of Irigaray’s notoriously fraught invocation of...
| Publicado en: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 111 - 127 |
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