Elena Tzelepis & Athena Athanasiou 
Rewriting Difference 
Luce Irigaray and ‚the Greeks‘

In this definitive reader, prominent scholars reflect on how Luce Irigaray reads the classic discourse of Western metaphysics and also how she is read within and against this discourse. Her return to ‚the Greeks, ‚ through strategies of deconstructing, demythifying, reconstructing, and remythifying, is not a nostalgic return to the ideality of Hellenocentric antiquity, but rather an affirmatively critical revisiting of this ideality. Her persistent return and affective bond to ancient Greek logos, mythos, and tragedy sheds light on some of the most complex epistemological issues in contemporary theory, such as the workings of criticism, the language of politics and the politics of language, the possibility of social and symbolic transformation, the multiple mediations between metropolitan and postcolonial contexts of theory and practice, the question of the other, and the function of the feminine in Western metaphysics. With a foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a chapter by Irigaray responding to her commentators, this book is an essential text for those in social theory, comparative literature, or classics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments



Foreword


Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak



1. Thinking Difference as Different Thinking in Luce Irigaray’s Deconstructive Genealogies


Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis



2. The Question of Reading Irigaray


Elizabeth Weed



3. Kore: Philosophy, Sensibility, and the Diffraction of Light


Dorothea Olkowski



4. In the Underworld with Irigaray: Kathy Acker’s
Eurydice


Dianne Chisholm



5. Textiles that Matter: Irigaray and Veils


Anne-Emmanuelle Berger



6. Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters: Luce Irigaray and the Female Genealogical Line in the Stories of the Greeks


Gail Schwab



7. Antigone and the Ethics of Kinship


Mary Beth Mader



8. Mourning (as) Woman: Event, Catachresis, and “That Other Face of Discourse”


Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis



9. Weird Greek Sex: Rethinking Ethics in Irigaray and Foucault


Lynne Huffer



10. Autonomy, Self-Alteration, Sexual Difference


Stathis Gourgouris



11. Hospitality and Sexual Difference: Remembering Homer with Luce Irigaray


Judith Still



12. “Raising Love up to the Word”: Rewriting God as “Other” through Irigarayan Style


Laine M. Harrington



13. Dynamic Potentiality: The Body that Stands Alone


Claire Colebrook



14. Sameness, Alterity, Flesh: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability


Gayle Salamon



15. “Women on the Market”: On Sex, Race, and Commodification


Ewa Plonowska Ziarek



16. Irigaray’s Challenge to the Fetishistic Hegemony of the Platonic One and Many


Tina Chanter



17. Who Cares about the Greeks? Uses and Misuses of Tradition in the Articulation of Difference and Plurality


Eleni Varikas



18. Conditionalities, Exclusions, Occlusions


Penelope Deutscher



19. The Return


Luce Irigaray



Contributors

Über den Autor

Elena Tzelepis is Lecturer in the Classics Department at Columbia University.
Athena Athanasiou is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Greece.