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Forever Fluid is the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s important text, Elemental Passions. It provides a lively alternative to the binary logic that runs through western culture, showing...
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Forever fluid is a rich feast of literary and philosophical insight. It provides the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s poetic text, Elemental Passions, setting it within its context within continental thought. It explores Irigaray’s images and intentions, developing the gender drama that takes place within her book, and draws the reader into the conversation in the text between ‘I-woman’ and ‘you-man’.

But the book is also much more than this, as it uses the exploration of sexual difference as a means to challenge the system of binary logic which has pervaded western thought since Aristotle. It develops the exciting idea of a fluid logic which can move beyond oppositions to multiple subjects and creativity of thought and action. While challenging Irigaray’s refusal to move beyond sexual difference, the book shows how her representation of sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds.

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Price: £25.00
Pages: 180
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender
Publication Date: 31 May 2014
ISBN: 9780719063817
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, European history, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Western philosophy from c 1800, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships

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Hanneke Canters studied at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, King's College London and the University of Sunderland

Grace M. Jantzen was Research Professor of Religion, Culture and Gender at the University of Manchester

Introduction
Part I: Problems of rigidity
1. Rigid binaries and masculinist logic
2. More than one subject: Irigaray and psychoanalytic theory
Part II: Elemental Passions
3. ‘Fragments from a Woman’s Voyage’: context and style
4. Interpretive synopsis of elemental passions
5. Images for a female subject
Part III: Critical identities
6. Multiple subjects and fluid boundaries
7. Fluid logic
Bibliography
Index