Ep. 375: Luce Irigaray's Feminism (Part One)

You're listening to the Partially Examined Life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. Our question for episode 375 is, what impact, if any, should sexual difference have on philosophy and society? We read several selections published between 1977 and 1993 by Luce Irigaray as presented in chapter seven of the year 2000 edition of the Roman and Littlefield French Feminism Reader edited by Kelly Oliver with an introduction written by today's guests. For more information about the text in the podcast, please see partialexaminelife.com. This is Mark Linsenmeyer reducing the rising tide of abstraction through concrete, sacrificial goals in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin struggling to find pleasure in the phallic economy in Austin, Texas. This is Dylan Casey engaging in the economy of desire in Madison, Wisconsin. And our special guest. This is Jenny Hanson trying to find some space for a voice in the follow logo centric economy. Well, I'm glad that I could cue you when to talk. I'll make sure to tell you every second of this discussion when you're allowed to talk, when and they'll cut your mic. We don't do that. Thanks for coming back, Jenny. Wes was gonna take a vacation. I I wanted to pick something that he didn't care that much about. So he doesn't it's not like he flees when he hears about this kind of topic. It's just that now when he is gonna be fleeing anyway, we pick this kind of topic. And we're always happy to have you back. Folks would remember Jenny from what we were on one of the abortion discussions, and you were on one of the bovoir discussions, and you were on philosophy versus improv twice. And Butler. Oh, Judith Butler. That's right. Yeah. Yes. So we've had lots of history with you. Yeah. And you you picked this reader. I mean, I had asked about Erigori because I think you had brought her up last time as somebody we should definitely get to, and we had not gotten to yet. So I didn't know anything about Seth, had you read any of her? Yeah. Okay. So so Seth, she's Heideggerian just as much as she's Lacanian. But, yeah, Jenny, give us the little intro. Tell tell the audience why they should care about this. What's going on here? Oh, well, I guess I think because she spends a lot of her time demonstrating the ways in which philosophy as a discipline depends upon a fundamental matricide. Right? That the philosophy as is structured as a discipline and the methods and the norms and the, you know, tools that it uses all require the repression of women as beings in the world, I guess, if we're using Heideggerian language as subjects. That seems like a pretty weighty endeavor. And and I will add this, it is often challenging to read a rigorai, but if you stop …