This volume argues that feminist theory can provide distinctive and potent resources to confront ... more This volume argues that feminist theory can provide distinctive and potent resources to confront and take on post-truth. By ‘post-truth’, we refer to a variety of discourses and practices that subvert the sense that we share a common world. Because post-truth undermines the norms and conditions that make possible shared political practices and institutions, post-truth politics is fundamentally anti-democratic. The most common response to post-truth has, however, come from those who call for reinstating truth and rationality, with special emphasis on returning to the facts and fact-checking. From a feminist perspective, this approach is worrisome as it risks idealizing the connection between democracy and truth, disowning the tensions within and between them, and suppressing contestation tout court. Diagnosing the post-truth moment we face two challenges: on the one hand, there is too much contestation (of the post-truth variety); on the other hand, there is too much depoliticization...
Emily Zakin Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Des... more Emily Zakin Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998), continues the project she began in Family Values (1997). In her previous text, Oliver analyzed the association of women with nature and of men with culture, and proposed and developed an ethics beyond the principle of sacrifi ce. In her new work, she persists in these endeavors, examining various philosophical conceptions of paternity and maternity, as well as aspects of their lived reality, social structure, and cinematic representation, in order to suggest an alternative to the alienation supposed by the nature/culture divide. The thesis of the book is encapsulated in the intriguing notion suggested by the title: that we can think subjectivity without assuming the enclosed, autonomous, alienated subject of Western rationality or the castrated subject of patriarchal psychoanalysis. Motivated by an ethics of the other, Oliver suggests that a new concept of subjectivity requires a rethinking of our relations to, and our tropes of, paternity and maternity, both in intimate family relations and as metaphors for law, origin, and love. The book is organized into three sections (Abject Fathers, Desiring Moth
This article argues that Hannah Arendt provides an illuminating perspective on the “crisis” of ed... more This article argues that Hannah Arendt provides an illuminating perspective on the “crisis” of education. The meaning and purpose of education, in Arendt's view, its fundamental role in civilization, is to impart an old world to new beings, preparing children for “renewing a common world” by establishing an active bond to the past that does not just encumber but enables agency. Because her work does not cohere with either contemporary liberal or contemporary conservative criticisms or justifications of higher education, or with either moral or vocational promises about its merit, Arendt's understanding of education appears less as a competing approach than as simply an eclipsed perspective. By focusing on the meanings and values of the public world we ineluctably inherit, Arendt's reflections on education illuminate the temporal precarity intrinsic to the human condition.
Romance: A Reader-Google Books Result The term postfeminism is used to describe reactions against... more Romance: A Reader-Google Books Result The term postfeminism is used to describe reactions against contradictions and absences in feminism, especially second-wave feminism and third-wave feminism. The term postfeminism is sometimes confused with 4th wave-feminism, and women of. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist Age. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist. Modleski examines post-feminism in popular culture particularly through popular film. The discussion focuses on issues such as surrogate motherhood, women Review: Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a. In the face of a self-proclaimed feminist criticism that leaps to embrace the often .
This article argues that there is an elemental confluence between the moral ideal of cosmopolitan... more This article argues that there is an elemental confluence between the moral ideal of cosmopolitanism and the economic and commercial practices of globalization. By looking at Foucault’s and Arendt’s readings of Kant, I show that the cosmopolitan premise of humanity is bound to an eschatological vision of the end of politics. In aligning Foucault’s discussion of state-phobia with Arendt’s discussion of world alienation, I argue that the eclipse of the public realm is intrinsic to the liberal conception of progress. While critics have viewed Arendt’s social/political distinction with suspicion, less attention has been paid to the parallel contrast between intimacy and privacy in her work and to the ways in which her critique of intimacy’s worldlessness converges with her depiction of the crisis of modernity. In Arendt’s account, the social swallows up and depoliticizes the public realm and spits out intimacy (limitless interiority) as the consolation for this loss.
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt addresses the central conundrum of legitimacy: the source of auth... more In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt addresses the central conundrum of legitimacy: the source of authority to found a new political form. On Arendt’s account, for revolutionary founding to evade the twin dangers of an infinite regress or a vicious circle, and to succeed in the constitution of a political body, it must enact and invoke both a worldly and a temporal component. To understand the bond between authority, constitution, and constituent power, Arendt thus analyzes the exchange between political space and political time. For the inauguration of a stable and secure public space, the events of founding must permit the independence of what it founds, unbinding the founding deed from the worldly object. For the inauguration of enduring public time, the constitutional document must contain a principle of self-preservation or endurance, allowing the present to appeal to both the past (ancestors) and the future (descendants). By thus distinguishing the authority of a constituted docume...
There is a kind of question, let us still call it historical, whose conception, formation, gestat... more There is a kind of question, let us still call it historical, whose conception, formation, gestation, and labor we are only catching a glimpse of today. I employ these words, I admit, with a glance toward the operations of childbearing--but also with a glance toward those who, in a society from which I do not exclude myself, turn their eyes away when faced by the as yet unnameable which is proclaiming itself and which can do so, as is necessary whenever a birth is in the offing, only under the species of the nonspecies, in the formless, mute, infant, and terrifying form of monstrosity. J. Derrida A Birth is in the Offing Derrida writes the above, almost apocalyptic words at the conclusion of his essay on Levi-Strauss, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In that essay he interrogates the meaning of structure by examining its operations at work in establishing any system of organized meaning. In particular, he interrogates the supposed foundat...
Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdis... more Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film ...
This book consists of a series of sociological essays and studies on various aspects of immigrant... more This book consists of a series of sociological essays and studies on various aspects of immigrant absorption in Israel. Most of the work has, in fact, been previously published but is here brought together for the first time in book form by the Henrietta Szold
Luce Irigaray is a Paris-based philosopher, psychoanalyst, and feminist. Much of her work develop... more Luce Irigaray is a Paris-based philosopher, psychoanalyst, and feminist. Much of her work develops through critical readings of key philosophical and psychoanalytic texts, readings in which she defiantly mimes and subtly undermines the reasoning and rhetoric of her interlocutors. Her work analyzes the formation and foundation of patriarchal culture and confronts the privileging of masculine subjectivity in lineages from fathers to sons and in exchanges between brothers. Keywords: citizenship; difference; equality; feminism; human nature; sex
This volume argues that feminist theory can provide distinctive and potent resources to confront ... more This volume argues that feminist theory can provide distinctive and potent resources to confront and take on post-truth. By ‘post-truth’, we refer to a variety of discourses and practices that subvert the sense that we share a common world. Because post-truth undermines the norms and conditions that make possible shared political practices and institutions, post-truth politics is fundamentally anti-democratic. The most common response to post-truth has, however, come from those who call for reinstating truth and rationality, with special emphasis on returning to the facts and fact-checking. From a feminist perspective, this approach is worrisome as it risks idealizing the connection between democracy and truth, disowning the tensions within and between them, and suppressing contestation tout court. Diagnosing the post-truth moment we face two challenges: on the one hand, there is too much contestation (of the post-truth variety); on the other hand, there is too much depoliticization...
Emily Zakin Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Des... more Emily Zakin Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998), continues the project she began in Family Values (1997). In her previous text, Oliver analyzed the association of women with nature and of men with culture, and proposed and developed an ethics beyond the principle of sacrifi ce. In her new work, she persists in these endeavors, examining various philosophical conceptions of paternity and maternity, as well as aspects of their lived reality, social structure, and cinematic representation, in order to suggest an alternative to the alienation supposed by the nature/culture divide. The thesis of the book is encapsulated in the intriguing notion suggested by the title: that we can think subjectivity without assuming the enclosed, autonomous, alienated subject of Western rationality or the castrated subject of patriarchal psychoanalysis. Motivated by an ethics of the other, Oliver suggests that a new concept of subjectivity requires a rethinking of our relations to, and our tropes of, paternity and maternity, both in intimate family relations and as metaphors for law, origin, and love. The book is organized into three sections (Abject Fathers, Desiring Moth
This article argues that Hannah Arendt provides an illuminating perspective on the “crisis” of ed... more This article argues that Hannah Arendt provides an illuminating perspective on the “crisis” of education. The meaning and purpose of education, in Arendt's view, its fundamental role in civilization, is to impart an old world to new beings, preparing children for “renewing a common world” by establishing an active bond to the past that does not just encumber but enables agency. Because her work does not cohere with either contemporary liberal or contemporary conservative criticisms or justifications of higher education, or with either moral or vocational promises about its merit, Arendt's understanding of education appears less as a competing approach than as simply an eclipsed perspective. By focusing on the meanings and values of the public world we ineluctably inherit, Arendt's reflections on education illuminate the temporal precarity intrinsic to the human condition.
Romance: A Reader-Google Books Result The term postfeminism is used to describe reactions against... more Romance: A Reader-Google Books Result The term postfeminism is used to describe reactions against contradictions and absences in feminism, especially second-wave feminism and third-wave feminism. The term postfeminism is sometimes confused with 4th wave-feminism, and women of. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist Age. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist. Modleski examines post-feminism in popular culture particularly through popular film. The discussion focuses on issues such as surrogate motherhood, women Review: Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a. In the face of a self-proclaimed feminist criticism that leaps to embrace the often .
This article argues that there is an elemental confluence between the moral ideal of cosmopolitan... more This article argues that there is an elemental confluence between the moral ideal of cosmopolitanism and the economic and commercial practices of globalization. By looking at Foucault’s and Arendt’s readings of Kant, I show that the cosmopolitan premise of humanity is bound to an eschatological vision of the end of politics. In aligning Foucault’s discussion of state-phobia with Arendt’s discussion of world alienation, I argue that the eclipse of the public realm is intrinsic to the liberal conception of progress. While critics have viewed Arendt’s social/political distinction with suspicion, less attention has been paid to the parallel contrast between intimacy and privacy in her work and to the ways in which her critique of intimacy’s worldlessness converges with her depiction of the crisis of modernity. In Arendt’s account, the social swallows up and depoliticizes the public realm and spits out intimacy (limitless interiority) as the consolation for this loss.
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt addresses the central conundrum of legitimacy: the source of auth... more In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt addresses the central conundrum of legitimacy: the source of authority to found a new political form. On Arendt’s account, for revolutionary founding to evade the twin dangers of an infinite regress or a vicious circle, and to succeed in the constitution of a political body, it must enact and invoke both a worldly and a temporal component. To understand the bond between authority, constitution, and constituent power, Arendt thus analyzes the exchange between political space and political time. For the inauguration of a stable and secure public space, the events of founding must permit the independence of what it founds, unbinding the founding deed from the worldly object. For the inauguration of enduring public time, the constitutional document must contain a principle of self-preservation or endurance, allowing the present to appeal to both the past (ancestors) and the future (descendants). By thus distinguishing the authority of a constituted docume...
There is a kind of question, let us still call it historical, whose conception, formation, gestat... more There is a kind of question, let us still call it historical, whose conception, formation, gestation, and labor we are only catching a glimpse of today. I employ these words, I admit, with a glance toward the operations of childbearing--but also with a glance toward those who, in a society from which I do not exclude myself, turn their eyes away when faced by the as yet unnameable which is proclaiming itself and which can do so, as is necessary whenever a birth is in the offing, only under the species of the nonspecies, in the formless, mute, infant, and terrifying form of monstrosity. J. Derrida A Birth is in the Offing Derrida writes the above, almost apocalyptic words at the conclusion of his essay on Levi-Strauss, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In that essay he interrogates the meaning of structure by examining its operations at work in establishing any system of organized meaning. In particular, he interrogates the supposed foundat...
Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdis... more Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film ...
This book consists of a series of sociological essays and studies on various aspects of immigrant... more This book consists of a series of sociological essays and studies on various aspects of immigrant absorption in Israel. Most of the work has, in fact, been previously published but is here brought together for the first time in book form by the Henrietta Szold
Luce Irigaray is a Paris-based philosopher, psychoanalyst, and feminist. Much of her work develop... more Luce Irigaray is a Paris-based philosopher, psychoanalyst, and feminist. Much of her work develops through critical readings of key philosophical and psychoanalytic texts, readings in which she defiantly mimes and subtly undermines the reasoning and rhetoric of her interlocutors. Her work analyzes the formation and foundation of patriarchal culture and confronts the privileging of masculine subjectivity in lineages from fathers to sons and in exchanges between brothers. Keywords: citizenship; difference; equality; feminism; human nature; sex
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