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Part of the book: Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine

Alison Martin

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 53

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  Irigaray’s treatment of certain Christian concepts, mysteries and figures is significant for her philosophy of the divine because of the way she adopts Christianity in order to attempt to create a female divine and subjectivity. Her adoption of Christianity is extremely challenging; it reveals the radicalness of her thought and is representative of her creative ability to carry through the consequences of her analysis of patriarchy. However, while this adoption is entirely consistent with her æuvre, it also highlights problematic issues within her philosophy: not least the need to make of gender differences a form of two universals if her logic of sexual difference is to hold.

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