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The End of Phenomenology: Bergson's Interval in Irigaray

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Dorothea E. Olkowski
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Abstract

Luce Irigaray is often cited as the principle feminist who adheres to phenomenology as a method of descriptive philosophy. A different approach to Irigaray might well open the way to not only an avoidance of phenomenology's sexist tendencies, but the recognition that the breach between Irigaray's ideas and those of phenomenology is complete. I argue that this occurs and that Irigaray's work directly implicates a Bergsonian critique of the limits of phenomenology.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Summer 2000 , pp. 73 - 91
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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