Tag: irigaray
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Love, Caress, Difference (for valentine’s day?)
In my book Becoming Two in Love I have created brief, first-person “moments” that give expression to the account and ethics of sexual difference otherwise described somewhat abstractly. An ethics of sexual difference is one that affirms the fundamental mystery that the sexuate other is/represents. It is an ethics that entails a refusal of relations of appropriation…
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the caress, respecting difference
From the 6th chapter of my book Becoming Two in Love: Kierkegaard, Irigaray, and the ethics of sexual difference, a reflection on the caress as this may embody an ethical intersubjectivity between man and woman. Expressed in somewhat poetic form: We are by no means strangers. Years of a shared life form a thick and…
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Setting her free for self-love…
In the sixth chapter of my book, Becoming Two in Love, there are three first-person narrative/poetic pieces in which I attempt to give more personal voice to the argument I am making. Here is the piece on self-love in the relationship between man and woman in (their undefinable) difference. —————— To be alive in the…
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my book is published #longroad
It has been a while in coming, but my book has been published – this is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation. Glad to see this day! Click the image for a link to its page on Amazon.
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theology, hospitality, Irigaray (article in L’Esprit Créateur)
Click the link for my article, published in the French Studies journal L’Esprit Créateur.
encrusted words 