"This book appraises the relationship between contemporary feminism and Julia Kristeva, a major figure in Continental thought. It addresses the conflicting range of feminist responses to Kristeva's key ideas and Kristeva's equally conflicting as well as ambiguous position vis-à-…
"For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. Th…
This text argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that 'totality and infinity and otherwise than being' separate philosophy from Judaism. Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called 'ethics' is as much a hermeneutical product as a series of phenomenological observati…
This is an important collection of interviews in which Luce Irigaray discusses the full range of her work and ideas with leading academics in the fields of continental philosophy, feminist theory and critical theory.
In this definitive reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to "the Greeks," through strategies of deconstructing, demythifying, reconstructin…
