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In this reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to “the Greeks,” through strategies of deconstructing, demythifying, reconstructing, and remythifying, is not a nostalgic return to the ideality of Hellenocentric antiquity, but rather an affirmatively critical revisiting of this ideality. Her persistent return and affective bond to ancient Greek logos, mythos, and tragedy sheds light on some of the most complex epistemological issues in contemporary theory, such as the workings of criticism, the language of politics and the politics of language, the possibility of social and symbolic transformation, the multiple mediations between metropolitan and postcolonial contexts of theory and practice, the question of the other, and the function of the feminine in Western metaphysics. With a foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a chapter by Irigaray responding to her commentators, this book is an essential text for those in social theory, comparative literature, or classics. Foreword Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1. Thinking Difference as Different Thinking in Luce Irigaray’s Deconstructive Genealogies Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis 2. The Question of Reading Irigaray Elizabeth Weed 3. Kore: Philosophy, Sensibility, and the Diffraction of Light Dorothea Olkowski 4. In the Underworld with Irigaray: Kathy Acker’s Eurydice Dianne Chisholm 5. Textiles that Matter: Irigaray and Veils Anne-Emmanuelle Berger 6. Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters: Luce Irigaray and the Female Genealogical Line in the Stories of the Greeks Gail Schwab 7. Antigone and the Ethics of Kinship Mary Beth Mader 8. Mourning (as) Woman: Event, Catachresis, and “That Other Face of Discourse” Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis 9. Weird Greek Sex: Rethinking Ethics in Irigaray and Foucault Lynne Huffer 10. Autonomy, Self-Alteration, Sexual Difference Stathis Gourgouris 11. Hospitality and Sexual Difference: Remembering Homer with Luce Irigaray Judith Still 12. “Raising Love up to the Word”: Rewriting God as “Other” through Irigarayan Style Laine M. Harrington 13. Dynamic Potentiality: The Body that Stands Alone Claire Colebrook 14. Sameness, Alterity, Flesh: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability Gayle Salamon 15. “Women on the Market”: On Sex, Race, and Commodification Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 16. Irigaray’s Challenge to the Fetishistic Hegemony of the Platonic One and Many Tina Chanter 17. Who Cares about the Greeks? Uses and Misuses of Tradition in the Articulation of Difference and Plurality Eleni Varikas 18. Conditionalities, Exclusions, Occlusions Penelope Deutscher 19. The Return Luce Irigaray |