Rewriting difference
Subtitle: Luce Irigaray and "the Greeks"
By: edited by Elena Tzelepis and Athena Athanasiou.
Contributors: Tzelepis, Elena.; Athanasiou, Athena.
Series: SUNY series in gender theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781438430997; 9781438431000
Subjects: Irigaray, Luce; Philosophy, Ancient; Feminist theory
Description: "In this definitive reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to 'the Greeks', through strategies of deconstructing, demythifying, reconstructing, and remythifying, is not a nostalgic return to the ideality of Hellenocentric antiquity, but rather an affirmatively critical revisiting of this ideality. Her persistent return and affective bond to ancient Greek logos, mythos, and tragedy sheds light on some of the most complex epistemological issues in contemporary theory, such as the workings of criticism, the language of politics and the politics of language, the possibility of social and symbolic transformation, the multiple mediations between metropolitan and postcolonial contexts of theory and practice, the question of the other, and the function of the feminine in Western metaphysics. With a foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a chapter by Irigaray responding to her commentators, this book is an essential text for those in social theory, comparative literature, or classics."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking difference as different thinking in Luce Irigaray's deconstructive genealogies / Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis; title: The question of reading Irigaray : toward a philosophy of myth / Elizabeth Weed; title: Kore: philosophy, sensibility, and the diffraction of light / Dorothea Olkowski; title: In the underworld with Irigaray: Kathy Acker's Eurydice / Dianne Chisholm; title: Textiles that matter: Irigaray and veils: dissimulated genealogies, ambiguous antigones / Anne-Emmanuelle Berger; title: Mothers, sisters, and daughters: Luce Irigaray and the female genealogical line in the stories of the Greeks / Gail Schwab; title: Antigone and the ethics of kinship / Mary Beth Mader; title: Mourning (as) woman: event, catachresis, and "that other face of discourse": poiesis of alterity / Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis; title: Weird Greek sex: rethinking ethics in Irigaray and Foucault / Lynne Huffer; title: Autonomy, self-alteration, sexual difference / Stathis Gourgouris; title: Hospitality and sexual difference: remembering Homer with Luce Irigaray / Judith Still; title: "Raising love up to the word": re-writing god as "other" through Irigarayan style ethics and politics of the corporeal / Laine M. Harrington; title: Dynamic potentiality: the body that stands alone / Claire Colebrook; title: Sameness, alterity, flesh: Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability / Gayle Salamon; title: "Women on the market": on sex, race, and commodification: possibilities and impossibilities of sexual difference / Ewa Ziarek; title: Irigaray's challenge to the fetishistic hegemony of the platonic one and many / Tina Chanter; title: Who cares about "the Greeks"? uses and misuses of tradition in the articulation of difference and plurality / Eleni Varikas; title: Conditionalities, exclusions, occlusions / Penelope Deutscher.