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Luce Irigaray
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Luce Irigaray is a Belgian and French philosopher, linguist, university teacher, and women's rights activist. Born in Blaton in 1930, she has worked in the field of gender studies. Her academic background includes education at the Catholic University of Leuven and Paris 8 University. She has been employed by the National Center for Scientific Research and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Additionally, she is a member of the École Freudienne de Paris.
Irigaray speaks French as her native language. Her professional work locations have included Leuven and Paris.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-05-03 ) 3 May 1930 (age 96) , Blaton , Wallonia, Belgium
- Alma mater
- Catholic University of Louvain , University of Paris , Institut de Psychologie de Paris , University of Paris VIII , University of Paris X
- Doctoral advisor
- Jean Dubois , François Châtelet
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy , Difference feminism , Post-structural feminism , French feminism
- Institutions
- CNRS , University of Paris VIII, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Main interests
- Linguistics , psychoanalysis , feminist philosophy , gender identity , ethics
- Notable ideas
- Ethics of sexual difference , criticism of phallogocentric arguments , "women on the market"
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Blaton
- Occupation
- feminist
- Educated at
- Paris 8 University
- Employer
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- gender studies
- Work location
- Paris
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- date of birth
- 1930-05-03
- name in native language
- Luce Irigaray
- member of
- École Freudienne de Paris
- Academia.edu profile URL
- www.academia.edu/People/Luce_Irigaray
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Encyclopedic overview
Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. She is considered one of the founders of French difference feminism.
Irigaray's first and most well known book, published in 1974, was Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), which analyzes the texts of Freud, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant through the lens of phallocentrism. Irigaray is the author of works analyzing many thinkers, including This Sex Which Is Not One (1977), which discusses Lacan's work as well as political economy; Elemental Passions (1982) can be read as a response to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible, and in The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (1999), Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air.
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