The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations
between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher,
linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers,
ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and
Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce
Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on
our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture.
Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary
theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal
works, Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One,
were published in English translation in 1985. This collection is
the first sustained examination of Irigaray's crucial relationship
to premodern discourses underpinning Western culture, and of the
transformative effect she has had on scholars working in
pre-Enlightenment periods. Like Irigaray herself, the essays work
at the intersections of gender, theory, historicism and
language.
This collection offers powerful ways of understanding premodern
texts through Irigaray's theories that allow us to imagine our past
and present relationship to economics, science, psychoanalysis,
gender, ethics and social communities in new ways.
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