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Negativity, Unhappiness or Felicity: On Irigaray's Dialectical Culture of Sexual Difference
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Fall 2012
- pp. 11-25
- 10.1353/esp.2012.0035
- Article
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Written in two voices, this article shows that Luce Irigaray’s thought offers an alternative to the subject/object structure dominant in philosophy. The article engages with dialectical thought and especially Hegel, exploring Irigaray’s focus on sexual difference. The authors elucidate negativity and felicity in politics, history, and personal life.