Desire beyond Identity
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Desire beyond Identity

Irigaray and the Ethics of Embodiment

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Desire beyond Identity

Irigaray and the Ethics of Embodiment

About this book

Critically adapts the notion of desire in Luce Irigaray's philosophy to rethink the role of embodiment in sociopolitical and philosophical discourses today.

Arguing for a radical return to desire in Luce Irigaray's thought, this book decisively intervenes in impasses around questions of identity that continue to confound contemporary discourse and politics. By prioritizing the disruptive potential of desire rather than sexual difference, Wesley N. Barker extends Irigaray's relational theory of becoming into new territory, opening generative, often surprising pathways for conversation with philosophies of race, queer theory, political theology, decolonial theory, and posthuman thought. As a source for reimagining materiality, desire is pulled free of a phallocentric, white, colonial framework and mobilized toward a philosophy of living capable of addressing the twenty-first century's multifaceted crises of identity, representation, and embodiment.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Desire beyond Identity
  7. Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Desire: Toward a Morphology of Lips
  8. Chapter 2. The “Matter” of Lips: Incarnating the Transcendence of Desire
  9. Chapter 3. Queer Lips, Queer Wombs, and the Temporality of Desire
  10. Chapter 4. Decolonizing Desire: Reading Spivak’s Postcolonial Echo and the Problem of Resistance
  11. Chapter 5. Desire beyond (Non)Being: Toward a Black Feminist Labial Logic
  12. Chapter 6. Horizons of Touch: Desire and a Reimagined Anthropos
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Back Cover