{"product_id":"irigaray-hardback-9780745651040","title":"Irigaray (Hardback) 9780745651040","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIrigaray\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Jones (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745651040, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is eloquent, well researched, and written by one of the sharpest feminist philosophers and brightest academic thinkers on the UK scene. It should in fact establish itself as a model for introductory philosophical texts. This is absolutely first-rate work – philosophy at its best.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTina Chanter, DePaul University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Rachel Jones provides an excellent introduction to Irigaray's thought which will benefit feminist philosophers and theorists as well as students. Jones gives a lucid and original account of central themes in Irigaray's work, such as the relation between matter and form, the nature of sexual difference, and the idea of a female subject position.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlison Stone, Lancaster University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This valuable and accessible book meets an urgent need for all those who have wrestled with the intricacies of Luce Irigaray's prose - or who have found the most important of her writings, \u003ci\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, simply too baffling. Written in an admirably clear style, Rachel Jones's book breaks new ground in showing why and how Irigaray's 'fling with the philosophers' still matters today.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristine Battersby, University of Warwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an astonishing book in its depth and framing of Irigaray. It offers an important contribution to feminist\u003cbr\u003e philosophy and has daring, bold, insightful claims that are not seen in other texts.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBreanne Fahs, Arizona State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought. Through detailed analysis of her most important text, Speculum of the Other Woman, Rachel Jones carefully examines Irigaray's transformative readings of such icons of the western tradition as Plato, Descartes, Kant and Hegel. She shows that these readings underpin Irigaray's claim that western philosophy has been dependent on the forgetting of both sexual difference and of our singular beginnings in birth. In response, Irigaray seeks to recover a positive account of sexual difference which would release woman from her traditional position as the 'other' of the subject and allow her to speak as a subject in her own right.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a sensitive reading of Irigaray's work, Jones shows why this distinctively feminist project necessarily involves the transformation of the fundamental terms of western metaphysics. By foregrounding Irigaray's approach to questions of otherness and alterity, she concludes that, for Irigaray, cultivating an ethics of sexuate difference is the condition of ethical relations in general. Lucidly and persuasively written, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars seeking to understand Irigaray's original contribution to philosophical and feminist thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e1. Approaching Irigaray: Feminism, Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e2. Re-visiting Plato's Cave: Orientation and Origins\u003cbr\u003e3. The Way Out of the Cave: A Likely Story...\u003cbr\u003e4. Woman as Other: Variations on an Old Theme\u003cbr\u003e5. Freud, Lacan, and Speaking (as a) Woman\u003cbr\u003e6. The Status of Sexuate Difference\u003cbr\u003e7. An Ethics of Sexuate Difference \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Incalculable Being of Being Between\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407321362712,"sku":"9780745651040","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745651040.jpg?v=1784161521","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/irigaray-hardback-9780745651040","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}