From Difference to the Ethics of Difference. Luce Irigaray’s Feminist Thought

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https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.462

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The paper presents an interpretation of the notion of sexual difference in the thought of a Belgium-born feminist philosopher, psychoanalyst and linguist, Luce Irigaray. Two forms of sexual difference are distinguished: 1. sexual difference as separation; 2. sexual difference as a productive and creative field of encounter. This distinction is used to investigate the possibilities of the application of the notion of sexual difference in two fields: firstly, a transformation of the concept of subjectivity into one that opposes the crisis referred to as the ‘death of the subject’, in which the subject is reduced to its weak, fluid or subjugated form; secondly, constructing a certain ethical project.

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2012-12-01

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Cielemęcka, Olga. 2012. “From Difference to the Ethics of Difference. Luce Irigaray’s Feminist Thought”. Etyka 45 (December). Warsaw, Poland:73-87. https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.462.

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Vol. 45 (2012)

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