Imaginary Bodies; Ethics, Power and Corporeality
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"Moira Gatens offers the most convincing and sympathetic reading of Irigaray's claims for the primacy of sexual difference, while arguing that it is crucial "to resist the temptation...to replace one body with two, one ethic with two, one reason with two."."
–Religious Studies Review, January 1999 Vol 25, No 1
"The arguments that Gatens develops and the parallels she introduces are compelling, bringing a well-informed historical perspective to a thorough knowledge of feminist theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis."
–--Tina Chanter, University of Memphis
Book Description
Imaginary Bodies is a collection of essays that offer a sustained challenge to traditional philosophical notions of the body, sex and gender. Moira Gatens explores alternative positions to dualism by exploring psychoanalytic, Foucaultian and Spinozist notions of embodiment. The book traces a largely neglected geneaology of philosophers from Spinoza, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault and Deleuze and sets this tradition against that of the Enlightenment. What emerges are new ways of thinking those aspects of life which Gatens calls "imaginary."
Confining herself to neither philosophy of "the subject" nor an ahistorical philosophy of "the body" at the expense of broader ethical and socio-political issues, Gatens shows the many connections between theories of bodies politic and the (sexed) individual. She compellingly, lucidly, and trenchantly engages with the ethical, legal and sexual relations between men and women which are placed in its proper historical and political context.
Imaginary Bodies; Ethics, Power and Corporeality
Imaginary Bodies; Ethics, Power and Corporeality,MOIRA GATENS,Routledge,0415082102,Body, Human,Feminist theory,Philosophy,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Sex differences,Social aspects,Topics in philosophy,Western philosophy, from c 1900 -,Women's studies
Imaginary Bodies; Ethics, Power and Corporeality
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