Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWhat Is Sexual Difference?
Subtitle of host publicationThinking with Irigaray
EditorsMary C. Rawlinson, James Sares
Place of PublicationNew York. NY
PublisherColumbia University Press
Chapter4
Pages79-100
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9780231554688
ISBN (Print)9780231202725, 9780231202732
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Luce Irigaray
  • Sexuate Difference
  • Onotolgy

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