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""Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference."" Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching inquiry into what may be the philosophical problem of our age. Irigaray approaches the question of sexual difference by looking at the ways in which thought and language--wh

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Author:   Luce Irigaray ,  Carolyn Burke ,  Gillian Gill
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801422256

ISBN 10:   0801422256
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   03 August 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Translators' NotePart ISexual DifferenceSorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato, Symposium, ""Diotima's Speech""Place, Interval: A Reading of Aristotle, Physics IVPart IILove of SelfWonder: A Reading of Descartes, The Passions of the SoulThe Envelope: A Reading of Spinoza, Ethics, ""Of God""Part IIILove of Same, Love of OtherAn Ethics of Sexual DifferencePart IVLove of the OtherThe Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, ""The Intertwining-The Chiasm""The Fecundity of the Caress: A Reading of Levinas, Totality and Infinity, ""Phenomenology of Eros"""

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Luce Irigaray, a trained, psychoanalyst, has two doctorates, one in linguistics and one in philosophy. Her books include Speculum of the Other, This Sex Which is Not One, and Ethics of Sexual Difference, all published by Cornell University Press.

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