ISBN:
978-0-7914-7443-3
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXV, 154 S.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in gender theory
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Irigaray, Luce
;
Fanon, Frantz
;
Heidegger, Martin
;
Fanon, Frantz
;
Heidegger, Martin
;
Irigaray, Luce
;
Feminismus
;
Gesellschaft
;
Social ethics
;
Sexual ethics
;
Race discrimination
;
Difference (Psychology) Social aspects
;
Body, Human Social aspects
;
Feminist theory
;
Ethik
;
Sprache
;
Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
;
Sprache
;
Ethik
;
Irigaray, Luce 1930-
;
Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961
Abstract:
"Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don Delillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically.""--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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