ISBN:
9781435648500
,
1435648501
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxv, 154 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in gender theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ingram, Penelope, 1969- Signifying body
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961
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Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
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Irigaray, Luce
;
Fanon, Frantz
;
Heidegger, Martin
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Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961
;
Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976 Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961
;
Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
;
Irigaray, Luce
;
Irigaray, Luce
;
Heidegger, Martin
;
Fanon, Frantz
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Difference (Psychology) Social aspects
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Human body Social aspects
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Social ethics
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Sexual ethics
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Race discrimination
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Feminist theory
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Difference (Psychology) Social aspects
;
Human body Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Difference (Psychology) ; Social aspects
;
Feminist theory
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
Race discrimination
;
Sexual ethics
;
Social ethics
;
Electronic books
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
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Introduction: Making metaphysics matter -- Representing difference -- Mocking the mirror -- The call to ethics -- Embodying transcendence -- Reading the signifying body -- Conclusion: Language and ethics : signifying the work of art.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index. - Description based on print version record
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