Irigaray & Deleuze

by Lorraine, Tamsin

• ISBN13: 9780801436239
• ISBN10: 0801436230
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

For Tamsin Lorraine, the works of Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze open up new ways of thinking about subjectivity. Focusing on the affinities between the theorists' views--while addressing weaknesses of each--she offers both a cogent analysis of their often challenging writings on this topic and an accessible introduction to their philosophical projects. Through her readings she articulates an approach to subjectivity as an embodied, dynamic process, one that speaks to beliefs about personal identity as well as to the practical problems people face in their relations with one another. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tamsin Lorraine is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Gender, Identity, and the Production of Meaning.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(2)
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(19)
Body Talk	1	(7)
Heidegger and the Body	8	(4)
Conceptual Thought and Corporeal Logics	12	(8)
1 Irigaray's Project	20	(29)
Irigaray and the Constitution of the Subject	23	(10)
Symbolic Support for Feminine Subjectivity	33	(10)
Irigaray's Reading of Philosophy	43	(6)
2 Irigaray's Nietzsche	49	(18)
Mimicry and the Feminine Other	49	(5)
A New Way of Thinking: An Elemental Logic	54	(3)
Christian Flesh	57	(3)
Irigaray's Critique of the Eternal Return	60	(4)
Sexual Difference and Reading Nietzsche	64	(3)
3 Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental	67	(23)
Living Mirrors and Corporeal Logic	67	(17)
Angelic Passages and the Feminine Divine	84	(3)
Horizon of Gender	87	(3)
4 Shattering Mirrors	90	(20)
Mirrors, Rights, and Cultural Change	90	(13)
Feminine Language and Intersubjective Communication	103	(7)
5 Deleuze's Project	110	(32)
Deleuze and Guattari and the Constitution of the Subject	117	(7)
Writing as Becoming-Imperceptible	124	(13)
Deleuze's Reading of Philosophy	137	(5)
6 Deleuze's Nietzsche	142	(23)
Speaking in One's Own Name	142	(4)
Active/Reactive Forces and Will to Power	146	(9)
Deleuze's Reading of the Eternal Return	155	(5)
Reading Nietzsche and Sexual Difference	160	(5)
7 Deleuze's Becoming-Imperceptible	165	(27)
Constructing the Body without Organs	167	(7)
Kafka and Becoming-Minoritarian	174	(7)
Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman	181	(7)
Becoming-Imperceptible	188	(4)
8 Mapping Lines of Flight	192	(26)
Foucauldian Cartography	192	(9)
Diagrams and Resistance	201	(17)
9 Corporeal Cartographies	218	(23)
Representing Origins and Becoming-Intrauterine	221	(7)
Critique of Representation and the Masculine Subject	228	(7)
Shattering Mirrors and Mapping Lines of Flight	235	(6)
Notes	241	(14)
Bibliography	255	(12)
Index	267