1st Edition

Philosophies of Difference Nature, Racism, and Sexuate Difference

Edited By Ryan S. Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill, Helen Ngo Copyright 2019
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems. Insisting on the inseparability of ontology, ethics and politics, the essays and interview in this volume offer original and timely approaches to thinking nature, sexuate difference, racism, and decoloniality. The collection draws on a range of sources,... Read more

Introduction: Philosophies of Difference  1. Onto-Ethics and Difference: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz   2. Irigaray, The Untimely, and the Constitutio of an Onto-Ethics  3. At Least Two: The Tendencies of Sexual Difference  4. Irigaray Between God and the Indians: Sexuate Difference, Decoloniality, and the Politics of Ontology  5. Plants and the Law: Vegetal Ontologies and the Rights of Nature. A Perspective from Latin America  6. Depth, Nature, Participation  7. Simulating the Lived Experience of Racism and Islamaphobia: On 'Embodied Empathy' and Political Tourism 8. Caught between Character and Race: 'Temperament' in Kant's Lectures on Anthropology  9. Reinventing Invention

Biography

Ryan S. Gustafsson is a philosopher teaching at the University of Melbourne, Australia.



Rebecca Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.



Helen Ngo is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia.