Irigaray & Deleuze

by Lorraine, Tamsin

• ISBN13: 9780801485862
• ISBN10: 080148586X
• Format: Paperback
• 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	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Body Talk	p. 1
Heidegger and the Body	p. 8
Conceptual Thought and Corporeal Logics	p. 12
Irigaray's Project	p. 20
Irigaray and the Constitution of the Subject	p. 23
Symbolic Support for Feminine Subjectivity	p. 33
Irigaray's Reading of Philosophy	p. 43
Irigaray's Nietzsche	p. 49
Mimicry and the Feminine Other	p. 49
A New Way of Thinking: An Elemental Logic	p. 54
Christian Flesh	p. 57
Irigaray's Critique of the Eternal Return	p. 60
Sexual Difference and Reading Nietzsche	p. 64
Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental	p. 67
Living Mirrors and Corporeal Logic	p. 67
Angelic Passages and the Feminine Divine	p. 84
Horizon of Gender	p. 87
Shattering Mirrors	p. 90
Mirrors, Rights, and Cultural Change	p. 90
Feminine Language and Intersubjective Communication	p. 103
Deleuze's Project	p. 110
Deleuze and Guattari and the Constitution of the Subject	p. 117
Writing as Becoming-Imperceptible	p. 124
Deleuze's Reading of Philosophy	p. 137
Deleuze's Nietzsche	p. 142
Speaking in One's Own Name	p. 142
Active/Reactive Forces and Will to Power	p. 146
Deleuze's Reading of the Eternal Return	p. 155
Reading Nietzsche and Sexual Difference	p. 160
Deleuze's Becoming-Imperceptible	p. 165
Constructing the Body without Organs	p. 167
Kafka and Becoming-Minoritarian	p. 174
Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman	p. 181
Becoming-Imperceptible	p. 188
Mapping Lines of Flight	p. 192
Foucauldian Cartography	p. 192
Diagrams and Resistance	p. 201
Corporeal Cartographies	p. 218
Representing Origins and Becoming-Intrauterine	p. 221
Critique of Representation and the Masculine Subject	p. 228
Shattering Mirrors and Mapping Lines of Flight	p. 235
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 267
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