Irigaray and Plato – Unlikely Bedfellows. Issue 52 (3rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Brien, Mahon
• Is Part Of: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Issue 52:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 182
• Publication Date: 2021-04-03
• Subjects: Irigaray -- Plato -- phenomenology -- Socrates -- Eros; Phenomenology -- Periodicals; Fenomenologie; Filosofie; Phénoménologie -- Périodiques; Phenomenology; Periodicals; 142.7
• DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2020.1796514
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1773

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Luce Irigaray has devoted considerable energy to wrestling with some key figures in twentieth-century phenomenology. Since the topic for this special issue is the relationship between phenomenology and ancient philosophy, I plan in the following to look at Irigaray's reading of Plato, given the centrality of carnality, sexuation and embodiment, not just to her own project, but the manner in which she invokes the same notions as part of her critique of Plato along with a number of twentieth-century phenomenologists.