French Women Philosophers: Contemporary Reader, A

Description:
This reader is the first of its kind to present the work of leading French women philosophers to an English-speaking audience. Many of the articles appear for the first time in English and have been specially translated for the collection. Christina Howells draws on major areas of philosophical and theoretical debate including Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Law, Politics, History, Science and Rationality. Each section and article is clearly introduced and situated in its intellectual context. The book is necessarily feminist in inspiration but draws on an unusually wide range of thinkers, chosen to represent the philosophy of women rather than feminist philosophy. It will be ideal for anyone coming to this area for the first time as well as those seeking to extend their understanding of French thought and Continental Philosophy. Articles by the following writers are included: Francoise Collin, Sylviane Agacinski, Catherine Chalier, Luce Irigaray, Francoise Proust, Francoise Dastur, Barbara Cassin, Natalie Depraz, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Elisabeth Badinter, Francoise Heritier, Helene Cixous, Monique Schneider, Julia Kristeva, Sarah Kofman, Monique David Menard, Francoise d'Eaubonne, Genevieve Fraisse, Michele Le Doeuff, Natalie Charraud, Francoise Balibar, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Colette Guillaumin, Dominique Schnapper, Myriam Revault-D'Allonnes, Nicole Loraux, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Blandine Kriegel.

Table of Contents:
Part 1. The Ethical Subject Introduction; 1. The Praxis of difference: Notes on the tragedy of the subject, Francoise Collin; 2. Moral anxiety and human life, Monique Canto-Sperber; 3. The Question of the Other (Critique of egocentricism), Sylviane Agacinski; 4. Peace as gift and obligation, Catherine Chalier; 5. Time's Double, Francoise Proust; The Question of the Other (Democracy begins with two), Lucy Irigaray; Part 2. Borders of the Human Subject Introduction; 7. Aristotle with and against Kant on the idea of human nature, Barbara Cassin; 8. Imagination and passivity: Husserl and Kant, a cross-relationship, Natalie Depraz; 9. Morality and finitude, Francoise Dastur; 10. Like potatoes: the silence of animals, Elizabeth de Fontenay; 11. From Aristotle to the Inuits: the reasoned construction of gender, Francoise Heritier; Part 3. The Psychoanalytic Subject Introduction; 12. Alerity: Being Human, Helene Cixous; 13. Repudiating the feminine, Monique Schneider; 14. Might not universality be our own foreigness? Julia Kristeva; 15. Freud and Plato. The Mirror and its mirages: Plato, Freud's forerunner on dreams, Sarah Kofman; 16. The structures of desire and the concept of the universal, Monique David-Menard; Part 4. The Rational and Scientific Subject Introduction; 17. The feminine and philosophy, Francoise d'Eaubonne; 18. Individual, actress, feminist subject, Genevieve Fraisse; 19. How intuition came to women, Michele le Doeuff; 20. Apparent subject, real subject, Natalie Charraud; 21. Is there a feminine science? Francoise Balibar; 22. Science and Ethics: problems of foundation, Anne fagot Largeault; Part 5. The Judirdical and Political Subject Introduction; 23. The specific characteristics of racist ideology, Collette Guillaumin; 24. Racism and the radical condemnation of modernity, Dominique Schnapper; 25. Kant and the idea of radical evil, Myriam Revault-D'Allonnes; 26. The Athenian name: imaginary structures of lineage in Athens, Nicole Loraux; 27. Democracy and Humanity, Mireille Delmas-Marty; 28. The Eighteenth-Century Declarations of rights and their destinies, Blandine Kriegel