The Feminine and Nihilism
Author | : Ellen Mortensen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1994 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105010503733 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Feminine and Nihilism written by Ellen Mortensen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the scholarship on Luce Irigaray has focused exclusively on her psychoanalytic work. The Feminine and Nihilism engages instead in a careful reading of the major philosophical intertexts in Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. This study is an interpretation of Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference and seeks to uncover how she enters into an amorous dialogue with the silent ground in Nietzsche's thinking: the material.