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Article: Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine. By ALISON MARTIN. (Texts and Dissertations, 53) London: Maney for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2000. 233 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; 72 [euro].
Luce Irigaray is a notoriously difficult and sometimes misunderstood thinker. Like Margaret Whitford (see e.g. her Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (London: Routledge, 1991)), Alison Martin takes Irigaray seriously as a philosopher of change, and her substantial study does justice to the complexity of Irigaray's thought. Martin focuses on what she sees as the centrality of the divine in Irigaray's work, rather than just a single aspect of it--this is a concept ...