Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Works by Luce Irigaray -- Interviews of Luce Irigaray -- Plato -- Merleau-Ponty Maurice -- Sartre Jean-Paul -- Levinas Emmanuel -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Material -- Gender as an Existential Style -- Woman in Philosophy -- Alternative Accounts of Essence and Irigaray's Essentialism -- Irigaray's Work as a Paradigmatic Example of the Constitution of Feminine Identity -- The Exposition of the Book -- Part I Body -- 1 Feminine Existential Style: An Operative Concept -- 2 The Philosophical Discourse and Canon, and Femininity -- The Metaphysical Origins of the Philosophical Tradition -- The Male Philosopher's Authority -- Philosophy as a Discourse -- Reproductive Mimesis in Platonism -- The Outcome of Reproductive Mimesis: Woman's Essence -- An Obstacle in the Pursuit of Truth: Platonic Conception of Essence -- Male Authority in Defining the Sense of Femininity -- The "Man's Woman": The Maternal-Feminine and Woman's Body -- The Variety of Man's Women and Their Expressivity -- The Hysteric -- The Beloved Woman -- The Mystic -- 3 Irigaray's Activity of Productive Mimesis: Opening of the Possibility of Original Feminine Expressivity -- Irigaray Writing as a Hysteric and as a Mystic -- The Feminist Discussion on Irigaray's "Mimetic" Reading of Merleau-Ponty -- The Feminist Discussion on Irigaray's "La Mystérique" -- Disclosing the Mechanism of Founding and Sustaining the Male-Dominance in the Philosophical Discourse and Canon -- "Man's Woman"-a Mere Perspective to Woman's Being -- 4 Phenomenology of the Body: the Methodological and Conceptual Framework for Irigaray's Investigations of Lived Embodiment and Expressivity -- The Task and Method of a Phenomenologist -- The Lived Body in Phenomenology: Own and Other -- The Role of Affectivity -- The Holistic Conception of Sexuality.

Language and Significance -- Irigaray's Critique of Merleau-Ponty -- 5 The Feminine Lived Body -- The Bodily Origins of Feminine Expressivity -- Irigaray's Holistic Conception of Sexuality -- The Feminine Embodied Soul and the Divine -- Woman for Herself: Writing and Phenomenological Exploration -- Conclusions to Part I -- Part II Desire -- 6 Irigaray's Account of the Beloved Woman as a "Man's Woman" -- The Narrow Notion of Sexuality: Masculine Sexuality and its Counterpart -- The Act of the Beloved Woman: Seduction -- The Effects of Irigaray's Writing as a Beloved Woman -- 7 Opening up the Possibility of Woman's Self-Love and Love among Women -- 8 Male Phenomenologists' Promise of the Uniqueness of Woman in Carnal Love -- 9 The Continuum of Caressing Gestures in Accordance with the Holistic Conception of Sexuality -- 10 The Philosophical Discourses of Carnal Love: Obstacles and Openings for the Becoming of a Woman Lover -- Sartre's Conception of Carnal Love as an Impasse -- Seduction and Substitution -- Other's Expressivity -- The Desired Body as Inert Flesh -- Caress as Possession of the Other's Freedom -- Irigaray's Challenge: The Inauthenticity of Sartre's Descriptions -- Sartre's Distinction: The Body and the Soul -- The Problematic Goal of Desire -- Femininity and Neutrality -- Levinas on Love and Eros: Need and Desire -- Eros and the Feminine -- The Beloved Woman as the Correlate of Caress -- Feminine Expressivity -- Irigaray's Challenge: Levinas' Eros as a Lapse in the Dichotomous Hierarchy of the Masculine and the Feminine -- The Beloved and the Mother as Substitutable -- Eros and Caress: A Possibility of Renewal? -- Platonic Tendencies in the Phenomenologies of Carnal Love -- Socrates on Carnal Love -- 11 The Male Lover, the Feminine Beloved One: A Specific Way of Understanding (Carnal) Love -- The Male Lover and the Male Philosopher.

12 Irigaray Writing, Speaking, and Acting as a Woman Lover -- The Female Teacher Diotima and Her Feminine Style -- Irigaray Speaking as a Female Teacher -- Irigaray's Daimonic Account of Desire -- Irigaray's Daimonic Account of Love -- Dynamics of Love of the Same and Love of the Other -- An Effect of the Acts of the Woman Lover: An Opening for Self-Defined Feminine Expressivity -- Effects of Irigaray's Writing as a Woman Lover: New Standard for Truthfulness in Love and Wisdom -- Conclusions to Part II -- Part III Wisdom -- 13 Original Aspects of Woman in Philosophy: Intermediating between Materiality and Spirituality, Nature and Gods -- The Indispensability of the Philosopher's Women, and Their Self-Sacrificial Love for His Life and Work -- The Partial and Mimetic Expressivity of the Philosopher's Wife -- Diotima: An Oracle/A Sorcerer -- 14 Irigaray as a Midwife for Diotima's Daimonic Philosophy of Eros -- Irigaray's Redefinition of Personal Love and Love for Wisdom -- 15 Writing: An Intervention into the Neutrality and Absoluteness of the Subject and a Model of Sensible Ideality -- The Figure of a Rose: Multilayered Openings in Éthique -- The Speaking Subject of Éthique: The Relation to Oneself -- The Relation to the Other Striving for Wisdom -- The Male Philosopher-Persons and the Tradition of Their Mutual Relations -- Irigaray as a Woman Philosopher Striving for Truth -- Irigaray's Address to the Reader in His or Her Multiplicity -- The Feminine Philosophical Subject Constituted by Feminine Acts of Writing -- Conclusions to Part III -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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