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Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition

Name: Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition
Author: Patricia J. Huntington
ISBN: 9780791438954

by Patricia J. Huntington

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Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition is a study in critical postmodern social theory. By engaging a dialogue with Heidegger, Kristeva, and Irigaray, it offers unique insights into Heidegger's heroic embrace of the manly ethos of National Socialism. Against certain poststructuralist feminist tendencies to throw the baby of intentionality out with the bath water of voluntarism, Huntington interweaves elements of Kristevan and Heideggerian thought in order to reconstruct a linguistically embedded, existentially and affectively rich, dialectical model of willed self-regulation. Pressing Heideggerian ontology into the service of a viable social theory, she argues that this ontology accounts for the utopian impulse in Irigaray's search for a critical poetic reenchantment of the life-world and supplies Irigaray with the philosophical foundation for a model of ethical recognition based upon asymmetrical reciprocity.

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Examining the works of Heidegger, Kristeva, and Irigaray, Huntington (Philosophy, Loyola U.) attempts to construct a dialectical vision of the self that reestablishes intentionality within a post-structural feminist framework. By dialectically revising Heidegger's one-sided methodology, she hopes to create a social ontology that serves as a bulwark against pure nominalism as well as essentialism and biologism. She argues that this examination is necessary because of the many Heideggerian elements in French post-structuralist theory and because of Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.