Challenging a Fictitious Neutrality: Heidegger in Question

by Luce Irigaray

Book Overview

Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality? For some urgent reasons. The neuter is generally considered to be the condition of objectivity. However, historically, this is asserted by a subject which is masculine and not neuter. Claiming that truth and the way of reaching it are and must be in the neuter amounts to a misuse of power and a falsification of the real. Living beings are not naturally neuter; they are sexuate somehow or other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030937313
• ISBN13: 9783030937317
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"