Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray (Suny Series in Gender Theory)

Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray s writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one s self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Levi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray s thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction References I: Time, Space, and the Universal In Search for the Mother through the Looking Glass Returning to the Cave-Womb: “Plato’S Hystera” The Substitution of Origins for Beginnings Mother Lost, Time Lost: Speculum De L’Autre Femme Revisiting Origins and Beginnings: Through the Looking Glass Time of Death and the Death of Time Acknowledgments Notes References Place, Interval How Far Should a Girl Go on a First Date? Woman: The Placeless Place Maternal Cartographies Place, Interval Notes References Further Speculations Introduction Returning to Lacan Returning to Irigaray Conclusion Notes References Game Change Woman under Man Specific Universals Livable Futures Notes References II: Language, Art, and Writing Irigaray and Kristeva on Anguish in Art Notes References A Love Letter from Beyond the Grave Introduction A Love Letter Reduction to the Same—Cosi Fan Tutte— as They All Do Irigaray, Freud, and the Letter Woman as Not-All Irigaray, Freud, and Negation Irigaray, Hardy, and Defacement Conclusion: A Most Unethical Love Letter Notes References Wonder and Écriture Cartesian Wonder Irigaray on Cartesian Wonder Critiquing Irigaray on Cartesian Wonder Wonder and Cartesian Écriture Wonder and Irigarayan Écriture Notes References Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom? Irigaray’S Linguistic Research: the Seventies through the Nineties Mothers and Daughters and Mothers and Sons Taking the Research to the Elementary and the Junior-High Classroom Notes References III: Science, Culture, and Technology Irigaray and Darwin on Sexual Difference Irigaray and the Concept of Sexual Difference Another Nature Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection Notes References What Kind of Science? Entropy Versus Evolution in Order out of Chaos: Irigaray’S Thermodynamics Dissipative Systems and the Female Libido Stengers and the Scientific Method Beginning to Think; the Cultivation of Flesh Conclusion: on Barbara Mcclintock and the Problem of Ecofeminism Notes References Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound Sound Waves as Fluid Disturbances and Maritime Frontiers Objective Perspectives, Maritime Adventures, and the Production of a Sonic Epistemology Refiguring Sound Waves through Allegories of Interconnection Acknowledgments References Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought Introduction Kinship and Sexed Kind: Irigaray and Lévi-Strauss the Kantian Transition: Geschlect Exogamies and Endogamies Alliance and Filiation: Deleuze and Irigaray Notes References IV: Psychoanalysis in Practice Desire at the Threshold Introduction Deconstructing the Sacrificial Order Fecund Thirdness—A True Intersubjective Dialectic toward a “Double Desire”: Irigaray with Loewald Meanderings in the Virgin Wilderness From Flesh to Words Conclusion Notes References Gendering Drives Freud’S Drive Theories Metapsychology and the Split Drive Retrieving the Affectionate Current in EGO Instinctual Drives Fragment of An Analysis of Thwarted Amae Conclusion Notes References Psychoanalysis and Yoga Introduction Consciousness and the Unconscious The Subtle Body Notes References Contributors Index Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Time, space, and the universal -- In search for the mother through the looking-glass : on time, origins, and beginnings in Plato and Irigaray / Fanny Söderbäck -- Place, interval : irigaray and ronell / Rebecca Hill -- Further speculations : time and difference in speculum de l'autre femme / Anne van Leeuwen -- Game change : Irigaray in the history of philosophy / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Language, art, and writing -- Irigaray and Kristeva on anguish in art / Elaine P. Miller -- A love letter from beyond the grave : Irigaray, nothingness and la femme n'existe pas / Claire Potter -- Wonder and écriture : descartes and Irigaray, writing at intervals / Perry Zurn -- Creating inter-sexuate inter-subjectivity in the classroom? / Luce Irigarays Linguistic Research in Its Latest Iteration / Gail Schwab -- Science, culture, and technology -- Irigaray and Darwin on sexual difference : some reflections / Elizabeth Grosz -- What kind of science? : reading Irigaray with Stengers / Margherita Long -- Toward a feminist epistemology of sound : refiguring waves in audio-technical discourse / Tara Rodgers -- Luce Irigaray and anthropological thought / Mary Beth Mader -- Psychoanalysis in practice -- Desire at the threshold : "vulvar logic" and intimacy between two / Cheryl Lynch Lawler -- Gendering drives : amae, philotes, and the forgotten mystery of female ancestry / Britt-Marie Schiller -- Psychoanalysis and yoga : the feminine and the unconscious between East and West / Sara Beardsworth -- List of contributors -- Index "Engaging the World explores Luce Irgaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life"--Page 4 of cover Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lvi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Descartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life. Engaging the World explores Luce Irigaray's writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to one's self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigaray's thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life.