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Author Roberts, Laura, author.

Title Irigaray and politics : a critical introduction / Laura Roberts.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 187 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Thinking politics
Thinking politics (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and index.
Contents 1. Beyond Freud and Lacan -- Psychoanalytic Critique of Western Thought -- Freud's Unconscious Phantasy -- Lacan's Mirror Stage -- A Culture of Narcissism -- Melanie Klein and Projective Identification -- Bela Grunberger and the Masculine Imaginary -- Psychoanalysing the Psychoanalysts: Irigaray on Freud's 'Femininity' -- Culture of Narcissism as Social Critique -- Notes -- 2. Feminine Imaginaries -- Philosophical Myths: Refiguring Western Space-Time -- Language and Subjectivity: Labial Logics and Placental Economies -- Notes -- 3. Genealogies and Subjectivity -- Cultural Myth: Mother-Daughter Relations and Woman-to-Woman Sociality -- Religious Myth: A Feminine Divine -- New Politics and Sexuate Rights -- Notes -- 4. Irigaray's Dialectics -- Tracing the Dialectic -- Irigaray with Hegel -- Diotima's Dialectic -- Refiguring Love, within and Between Us -- Interval of Breath -- I Love to You: The Failure of Hegel's Labour of Love -- Listening and Wonder -- Notes -- 5. Luce Irigaray with Gayatri Spivak -- 'French Feminism in an International Frame' -- French Feminism Revisited -- Levinas and the Fecundity of the Caress -- Impossible Intimacy of the Ethical -- Notes -- 6. A Politics of Proximity -- Marxist Feminist Critique of the Family -- Refounding the Family -- Intercultural Couples -- Politics of the Common -- Where to Now? International New Municipalism -- Barcelona en Comu and the Feminisation of Politics -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Afterword -- Notes.
Summary 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.
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Subject Irigaray, Luce -- Political and social views.
Irigaray, Luce.
Political and social views.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Feminist theory.
Feminist theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Feminist theory.
Other Form: Print version: Roberts, Laura. Irigaray and politics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 1474422829 (DLC) 2018277098 (OCoLC)1039935206
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