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Questions to Luce Irigaray

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Kate Ince
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Abstract

This article traces the “dialogue” between the work of the philosophers Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. It attempts to construct a more nuanced discussion than has been given to date of Irigaray's critique of Levinas, particularly as formulated in “Questions to Emmanuel Levinas” (Irigaray 1991)-It suggests that the concepts of the feminine and of voluptuosity articulated by Levinas have more to contribute to Irigaray's project of an ethics of sexual difference than she herself sometimes appears to think.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Spring 1996 , pp. 122 - 140
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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