Luce Irigaray, born 3 May 1930, is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women, considered one of the founders of French difference feminism. Her first and best known book, Speculum of the Other Woman, published in 1974, analyzes the texts of Freud, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant through the lens of phallocentrism, and she has written further works analyzing other thinkers, including This Sex Which Is Not One in 1977, which discusses Jacques Lacan's work and political economy, Elemental Passions in 1982, read as a response to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's essay on the chiasm, and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger in 1999, which critiques Heidegger's emphasis on earth as the ground of life and speech and his neglect of air. Irigaray employs three modes of investigation into gender, language and identity, the analytic, the essayistic and the lyrical poetic, and as of October 2021 remained active in the women's movements of both France and Italy.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining MomentSourced to the subject's own accountPublication of Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), a critique of phallocentrism in Western philosophy and psychoanalysis that led to her expulsion from the Ecole Freudienne de Paris and her recognition as a founder of French difference feminism. 1 Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Notable PublicationSourced to the subject's own accountSpeculum of the Other Woman (1974) 1 Office HeldSourced to the subject's own accountDirector of Research in Philosophy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), holding a research post there since 1964 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBlaton, Wallonia, Belgium 1 TraditionSourced to the subject's own accountContinental philosophy and French difference feminism; psychoanalytic and linguistic critique of phallocentrism 1 Tradition
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Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.
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3 May 1930
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Blaton, Wallonia, Belgium
Introduction, paragraph 2
Irigaray's first and most well known book, published in 1974, was Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), which analyzes the texts of Freud, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant through the lens of phallocentrism.
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She was expelled from this school in 1974, after the publication of her second doctoral thesis, Speculum of the Other Woman, which received much criticism from both the Lacanian and Freudian schools of psychoanalysis. This criticism brought her recognition.
Education, paragraph 5
She has held a research post at the CNRS since 1964, where she is now a Director of Research in Philosophy.
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is a Belgian-born French feminist
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Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. She is considered one of the founders of French difference feminism.
Influenced By: Martin Heidegger, Major works section
in The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (1999), Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his 'oblivion' or forgetting of air.
Influenced By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Major works, Elemental Passions subsection
Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions (1982) could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article 'The Intertwining-The Chiasm' in The Visible and the Invisible.
In Branch: Feminist Philosophy, Infobox: main_interests
Linguistics, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy, gender identity, ethics
In Group: Feminist Philosophy Of Language, Infobox: school_tradition
Continental philosophy Difference feminism Post-structural feminism French feminism
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