1st Edition
French Women Philosophers A Contemporary Reader
Edited By Christina Howells
Copyright 2004
472 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
by
Routledge
This reader is the first of its kind to present the work of leading French women philosophers to an English-speaking audience. Many of the articles appear for the first time in English and have been specially translated for the collection. Christina Howells draws on major areas of philosophical and theoretical debate including Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Law, Politics, History, Science and... Read more
The Ethical Subject: Francoise Collin, Sylviane Agacinski, Catherine Chalier, Luce Irigaray, Francoise Proust, Francoise Dastur. Borders of the Human Subject: Barbara Cassin, Natalie Depraz, Elisabeth be Fontenay, Elisabeth Badinter, Francoise Heritier. The Psychoanalytic Subject: Helene Cixous, Monique Schneider, Julia Kristeva, Sarah Kofman, Monique David Menard. The Rational and Scientific Subject: Francoise d'Eaubonne, Genevieve Fraisse, Michele le Doeuff, Natalie Charraud, Francoise Balibar, Anne fagot Largeault. The Juridical and Political Subject: Collette Guillaumin, Dominique Schnapper, Myriam Revault-D'Allonnes, Nicole Loraux, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Blandine Kriegel
Biography
Christina Howells is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College. She is author of Sartre's Theory of Literature (1979), Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom (1988), Derrida: from Phenomenology to Ethics (1998), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992).
'A much-needed anthology that promises to change the way we understand not merely what has, to the present, been reductively known as "French Feminism" but, more importantly, the wider field of contemporary French philosophy ... ground-breaking and original in its conception.' - Critical and Cultural Theory
