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Questions of Proximity: “Woman's Place” in Derrick and Irigaray

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ellen T. Armour
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Abstract

This article reconsiders the issue of Luce Irigaray's proximity to Jacques Derrida on the question of woman. I use Derrida's reading of Nietzsche in Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (1979) and Irigaray's reading of Heidegger in L'Oubli de l'air (1983) to argue that reading them as supplements to one another is more accurate and more productive for feminism than separating one from the other. I conclude by laying out the benefits for feminism that such a reading would offer.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 63 - 78
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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