Abstract
Luce Irigaray’s philosophy of sexual difference is an ontological project concerned with the erasure of the question of sexual difference in Western traditions and the pursuit of new values and frameworks for a renewed understanding of subjectivity as sexuate. But what does this mean exactly? What does it mean to argue that Irigaray is a philosopher of ontology? How are we to understand Irigaray’s claim that “sexuate difference has an ontological status, but not in a traditional sense”? Or when she notes that Being “is split in two, or, rather, is held in two and in the relation between”? What does ontology, ontological status, and Being refer to here? Fixed essences? Static entities? What there really is? And, reading Irigaray as a philosopher of ontology, how are we to approach the question: What is sexual, or sexuate, difference?...
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | What Is Sexual Difference? |
Subtitle of host publication | Thinking with Irigaray |
Editors | Mary C. Rawlinson, James Sares |
Place of Publication | New York. NY |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 79-100 |
Number of pages | 22 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780231554688 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780231202725, 9780231202732 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Luce Irigaray
- Sexuate Difference
- Onotolgy