Women's Studies, General & Miscellaneous Philosophy, Philosophical Positions & Movements, Intellectual Movements, Renaissance & Modern Philosophy
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Overview
Without a Woman to Read enacts a new metaphorical thinking of political and social space around the questions of silence and voice, reading and writing, maternity and paternity, faithless daughters and transcendent sons. Price's interrogations of the tradition find a new space between primary and secondary sources, orchestrating the conjunction and disjunction of political, social, and aesthetic themes within postmodernism. In that sense, the book belongs to several discourses - postmodern philosophy, political theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary theory - at the same time that it transcends any particular discourse. An essay in the reconfigurative and transformative possibilities of metaphor, the book not only enacts a deconstruction, and possible reconstruction, of the metaphorical space of woman but also turns in toward the political questions of creating a world that we could live in through responding to, and working toward, its constantly transforming metaphors. At the heart of the project lies a reevaluation of Levinas's ethical ontology as a response to the traditional metaphysics of structured exchange - of the giving and withdrawing of God in Christ, or of linguistic signs in the place of real presence - through a reconfiguration of the metaphorical play of sisters, mothers, and daughters.Editorials
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Some feminist thinkers will question a textual analysis by a male of the marginalized role of women as the Other. Price (DePaul U.) contends that his book is not about gender in the traditional sense of viewing women's place as "the" problem with another preconceived idea as the solution. Rather, he frames questions of the metaphorical relationships of mothers, daughters, and sisters to the themes of God, Christ, desire, silence, death, and the politics and aesthetics of self and other. Drawing upon such feminist thinkers as Judith Butler, Carol Gilligan, and Lucy Irigaray, he considers such motifs as represented in modern philosophy (Levinas in particular), classical and modernist literature (from Sophocles to Zora Neale Hurston). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 15, 1997
Publisher
New York : State University of New York Press, c1997.
Pages
372
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791434598